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Shawn Huckins' painting of Thomas Jefferson with a WiFi symbol over his face, 2017.

Meet Thomas Jefferson

Portraying a 19th-century president.
by C. J. Bartunek via Oxford American on June 6, 2023
A man walking an alligator on a leash.

Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm

These images of the LA Alligator Farm depict a level of casual proximity unthinkable today.
by Erica X. Eisen via The Public Domain Review on May 11, 2023
Black and white picture of two elephants standing next to two women in a field.

The Hidden History of Resort Elephants at Miami Beach

Two elephants living at a Miami Beach resort blurred the boundaries between work and leisure in 1920s Florida.
by Anna Andrzejewski via Edge Effects on April 27, 2023
An elephant holding a broom with its trunk.

Lions and Tigers and Cameras!

How the movies gave Los Angeles a zoo.
by D. J. Waldie via KCET on March 16, 2023
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Rainbows and Disappointments

There is a long and storied tradition of feeling underwhelmed by the natural spectacle of Niagara Falls. Still, the visitors keep coming.
by Ed Ayers on December 13, 2022
"Nasby in Exile" cover with print of a man in a top hat smoking a pipe.

Nasby in Exile

The story of David Ross Locke's travels to Western Europe.
by Daniel Saunders via ArcGIS StoryMaps on December 8, 2022
A painting of Osceola by George Catlin

Ghost Stories at Flagler College

Telling a spooky story around a campfire—or in a dorm room—may be the best way to keep a local legend alive.
by Julia Métraux, Jason Marc Harris via JSTOR Daily on October 30, 2022
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, showing a castle sculpture and reading "Lullaby land"

Inside the Disneyland of Graveyards

How Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, a star-studded cemetery in Los Angeles, corporatized mourning in America.
by Greg Melville via Smithsonian on September 29, 2022
Dry cracked, barren land at dawn, the former bed of the Salton Sea, 2019.

The Toxic History of the Salton Sea

A new book catalogs the alarming events that created one of the West’s most polluted bodies of water.
by Kyle Paoletta via The Nation on August 10, 2022
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High Domes and Bottomless Pits

Exploring the homes of two presidents, the birthplace of another, and a natural wonder that once drew visitors from far and wide.
by Ed Ayers on July 6, 2022
Arlen Parsa's Painting, Declaration of Independence Revisited (2019), the famous painting of the signing but with red dots over the faces of slaveholders.

How to Decolonize the Capitol

Art historians, legislators, and activists have long decried themes of white supremacy in the art collection of the U.S. Capitol. Can this place be decolonized?
by Marisa Angell Brown via Places Journal on June 14, 2022
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American Journey

A journal of my road trip to the formative decades of American history.
by Ed Ayers on May 17, 2022
The site in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were murdered in 1964.

Burying a Burning

The killing of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964 changed America.
by Ko Bragg via The Atlantic on April 7, 2022
A man stands beside a sign that reads: future home of the Africantown welcome center

The Last Known Ship of the US Slave Trade

The discovery of the remains of the Clotilda, 160 years after it sank, brings new life and interest to the settlement built by the original survivors.
by Zoey Goto via BBC News on February 8, 2022

Modern-day Culture Wars are Playing Out on Historic Tours of Slaveholding Plantations

Romanticized notions of Southern gentility are at odds with historical reality as the lives, culture and contributions of the enslaved are becoming integral on tours.
by Kelley Fanto Deetz via The Conversation on December 6, 2021
The Titanic sinking.

How The Titanic Haunts Us

We have good reason to remember the story of what happened to hubristic rich people, and the imprisoned poor, in an enormous opulent floating palace.
by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on October 26, 2021
Montpelier, the home of James Madison in Orange, Virginia

Is History for Sale?

The omnipresence of slavery at historic sites today seems intended to tarnish remarkable achievements and promote the cause of identity politics.
by Mark Pulliam via Law & Liberty on October 5, 2021
A former slave cabin, surrounded by tourists.

‘These Are Our Ancestors’: Descendants of Enslaved People Are Shifting Plantation Tourism

At three plantations in Charleston, S.C., Black descendants are connecting with their family’s history and helping reshape the narrative.
by Ariel Felton via Retropolis on October 1, 2021
Boats moored in the water in front of a row of houses on the beach. Photo by Amani Willett.

Nantucket Doesn’t Belong to the Preppies

The island was once a place of working-class ingenuity and Black daring.
by Tiya Miles via The Atlantic on August 30, 2021
“Natural Bridge, Virginia” (1860) by David Johnson. Oil on canvas.

Rekindling the Wonder of Natural Bridge, Once a Testament to American Grandeur

"Virginia Arcadia: The Natural Bridge in American Art,” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, surveys the arch as icon and propaganda.
by Philip Kennicott via Washington Post on June 16, 2021
Nelson Algren sititing under a bridge

When the Government Supported Writers

Government support created jobs, built trust, and invigorated American literature. We should try it again.
by Max Holleran via The New Republic on June 15, 2021
Coconino National Forest sign

The Unsung Ranger Behind the U.S. Forest Service's Iconic Signs

Career ranger Virgil "Bus" Carrell had no design training, but "really gave a damn," say experts, about his lasting legacy.
by Greg Christensen via Atlas Obscura on April 12, 2021
Glacier National Park, in Montana, as seen from the Blackfeet Reservation, near Duck Lake.

Return the National Parks to the Tribes

The national parks are the closest thing America has to sacred lands, and like the frontier of old, they can help forge our democracy anew.
by David Treuer via The Atlantic on April 12, 2021
Collage of images related to Monopoly's history

The Prices on Your Monopoly Board Hold a Dark Secret

The property values of the popular game reflect a legacy of racism and inequality.
by Mary Pilon via The Atlantic on February 21, 2021
One of Yellowstone's infamous hot springs.

The Lost History of Yellowstone

Debunking the myth that the great national park was a wilderness untouched by humans
by Richard Grant via Smithsonian on January 5, 2021
A landscape painting.

The Hotel at the Heart of the Hudson River School

An unearthed guest register from the Catskill Mountain House sheds light on the artists who spent the night there.
by Rebecca Rego Barry via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 18, 2020
Painting of the rocky mountains

How ‘America the Beautiful’ was Born

The United States’ unofficial anthem, a hymn of love of country.
by Jill Lepore via National Geographic on November 3, 2020

The Unfinished Story of Emmett Till’s Final Journey

Till was murdered 65 years ago. Sites of commemoration across the Mississippi Delta still struggle with what’s history and what’s hearsay.
by Alexandra Marvar via Gen on October 8, 2020
The start of the comic, a bus driving through the desert with the text "I am on a BUS FULL OF HISTORIANS speeding through the desert"

The Desert Keeps Receipts

A dispatch from a tour of a Cold War-era nuclear test site in the Mojave Desert.
by B. Erin Cole via Contingent on October 8, 2020

Walt Disney's Empty Promise

For so many of the millions of tourists who come to Orlando, this—Disney, Universal Studios, I-Drive, all of it—stands in for America itself.
by Kent Russell via The Paris Review on July 10, 2020
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