land speculation

Just before a lynch mob was to face trial in Florida in 1926, a storm hit.

When cattle barons carved up Texas with barbed wire in the late 19th century, cowboys formed fence-cutting gangs to preserve the open range.

Woody Holton’s "Liberty is Sweet" charts not only the contest with Great Britain over “home rule” but also the internal struggle over who should rule at home. 

Year-by-year maps of homesteading claims and the dispossession of Native Americans.

Why has a relatively conventional history of the War of Independence drawn such an outraged response?

What gets lost when we view the American past as primarily a story about capitalism? 

In the years after the Civil War, some wanted a new seat of government that would be closer to the geographic center of a growing nation.

A new book argues that mail service played a critical role in the U.S. government’s westward expansion and occupation of Native lands.

Pursuing a Native alliance powerful enough to resist the American invaders, the Shawnee leader and his prophet brother envisioned a new and better Indian world.

Before universities profited from stolen Indigenous territory through "land-grants," schools like UNC sold Indigenous lands hundreds of miles away.

Cornell University's past and current wealth is tied to the dispossession of Indigenous groups from their land.

Miles Harvey on the life and times of James J. Strang.

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

How John and Jessie Frémont explored the frontiers of legend-making.

Starting in the 1970s, groups like MOVE and Seeds of Wisdom have fought for the decolonization of urban space.

In ignoring the messy realities of westward expansion, McCullough’s "The Pioneers" is both incomplete and dull.

According to John Wesley Powell, outside of the Pacific Northwest, the arid lands of the west could not be farmed without irrigation.