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Photos of victims in the 9/11 museum

The 9/11 Museum and Its Discontents

A new documentary goes inside the battles that have riven the institution and shaped the historical legacy of the attack.
by David Klion via Intelligencer on August 26, 2021
Art sculpture "House" by Rachael Whiteread, 1993 (a concrete casting of the inside of a Victorian house).

Monuments for the Interim Twenty-Four Thousand Years.

An account of the long-lasting effects of nuclear energy in the US.
by Annie Simpson via Southern Cultures on August 23, 2021
National September 11 Memorial & Museum

We Need to Reform the September 11 Museum

Approaching the 20th anniversary of the attacks, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center faces a reckoning.
by Todd Fine, Asad Dandia via Hyperallergic on August 1, 2021
Olympic surfer
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Centuries of U.S. Imperialism Made Surfing an Olympic Sport

With an eye toward U.S. power, Americans spread the sport making its Olympic debut.
by Thomas Blake Earle via Made By History on July 25, 2021
Inscription on Gullah-Geechee gravestone

Hilton Head Island— Haunted by Its Own History

Historical traces of racism and exclusion remain on the island. It’s just that new residents can’t—or won’t—read them.
by Alexa Hazel via Public Books on July 20, 2021
Illustration of the Salem Witch Trials, with a "witch" appearing to levitate books

My Witch-Hunt History, and America's: A Personal Journey to 1692

Revisiting America's first witch hunt — and discovering how much of it was a family affair. My family, that is.
by Andrew O'Hehir via Salon on July 4, 2021
Chinatown architecture

The Surprising Reason Why Chinatowns Worldwide Share the Same Aesthetic

It all started with the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
by Josh Jones via Open Culture on May 19, 2021
Artist's rendering of the proposed Disney's America theme park in Prince William County, Virginia.

Disney and Battlefields: A Tale of Two Continents

The conflict between commercialization and historic preservation.
by Niels Eichhorn via Muster on April 20, 2021
engraving of Harriet Beecher Stowe
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A Forgotten 19th-Century Story Can Help Us Navigate Today’s Political Fractures

Reconciliation is good — but not at any cost.
by Ellen Gruber Garvey via Made By History on March 23, 2021
Activist Donivan Brown on the Walnut Street Bridge.

The Lynching That Black Chattanooga Never Forgot Takes Center Stage Downtown

The city will memorialize part of its darkest history at the refurnished Walnut Street Bridge.
by Chris Moody via Washington Post on March 11, 2021
The ship, Jose Gaspar, in Tampa Bay during the Gasparilla Festival

The True History and Swashbuckling Myth Behind the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Namesake

Pirates did roam the Gulf Coast, but more myths than facts have inspired the regional folklore.
by Nora McGreevy via Smithsonian on February 4, 2021
Skiers queuing to get on The Dollar lift.

How a Railroad Engineer From Nebraska Invented the World's First Ski Chairlift

The device was part of an elaborate plan on behalf of Union Pacific to boost passenger rail travel in the American West.
by Sarah Kuta via Smithsonian on February 2, 2021
A Seminole man puts his hand inside the mouth of an alligator

How Florida’s Seminole Tribe Transformed Alligator Wrestling Into a Symbol of Independence

Once a means of survival, and then an exploitative spectacle, the sport can also embody a synergy with a top predator in Florida’s changing landscape.
by Adam Piron, Murat Oztaskin, Adam Khalil via The New Yorker on January 27, 2021
An illustration of a skeleton apparition.

A History of Presence

The aesthetics of virtual reality, and its promise of “magical” embodied experience, can be found in older experiments with immersive media.
by Brooke Belisle via Art In America on January 25, 2021
William Tyler in front of a portrait of his father.

The 10th President’s Last Surviving Grandson: A Bridge to The Nation’s Complicated Past

At 91, Harrison Ruffin Tyler demonstrates that "long ago" wasn't so long ago.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on November 29, 2020
Protesters, one holding a Black Lives Matter sign, stand under the Confederate monument carved into Stone Mountain.

Hatred Set in Stone

The Confederate memorial carving at Georgia’s Stone Mountain is etched with more than a century of racist history. But tearing it down won’t be so easy.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 8, 2020

The Thrill of the Chase

Why are Americans so obsessed with tornadoes? A brief tour of twister culture has the answer.
by Rebecca Onion via PBS on May 12, 2020

The History of the Hawaiian Shirt

From kitsch to cool, ride the waves of undulating popularity of a tropical fashion statement.
by Teddy Brokaw via Smithsonian on April 16, 2020

A History of Photography in America’s National Parks

From Ansel Adams to Rebecca Norris Webb, we trace the symbiotic relationship that the parks and photography have developed over 150 years.
by Aperture via Aperture on February 20, 2020

When Memphis Fell for a Pyramid Scheme

The Great American Pyramid was supposed to give the Tennessee city an architectural landmark for the ages. Instead, it got a very large sporting goods store.
by Martha Park via CityLab on January 29, 2020
Street signs on the corner of Rosa L. Parks Avenue and North Jeff Davis Avenue.

Atlas of Southern Memory

An interactive map of public commemoration of the Civil War and the civil rights movement in the South.
by Caroline Klibanoff via Atlas of Southern Memory on December 31, 2019
Men and women of Zoar, Ohio, posing in a field with their hay harvest, horses, and equipment.

The Communal, Sometimes Celibate, 19th-Century Ohio Town That Thrived for Three Generations

Zoar's citizens left religious persecution in Germany and created a utopian community on the Erie Canal.
by Kathleen M. Fernandez via What It Means to Be American on December 1, 2019

Colonial Williamsburg Begins Researching LGBTQ History

Colonial Williamsburg has acknowledged to the LGBTQ community that people like them “have always existed.”
by Samantha Schmidt via Washington Post on November 16, 2019

The Legend of Big Ole

How one monument came to be at the center of Minnesota’s imagined white past.
by Rachel Boyle via Belt Magazine on November 14, 2019

Climate Change is Wiping Out Harriet Tubman’s Homeland, and We’re Doing Little

America’s racialized topography means African-American historical sites are especially vulnerable to climate change.
by Rona Kobell via Boston Globe on October 24, 2019

A Brief History of Seltzer Booms in America

For over 100 years, the bubbly beverage has gone in and out of vogue as a wellness tonic.
by Maya Kroth via Medium on August 12, 2019

Emmett Till Memory Project

The website version of an app designed to be a digital guide to the legacy of Till’s murder.
by Emmett Till Interpretive Center on August 1, 2019

The Man Who Tried to Claim the Grand Canyon

Ralph H. Cameron staked mining claims around the Grand Canyon, seeking to privatize it. To protect his claims, he ran for Senate.
by Adam M. Sowards via JSTOR Daily on July 31, 2019

A Lost Work by Langston Hughes Examines the Harsh Life on the Chain Gang

In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race. It has never been published in English—until now.
by Steven Hoelscher via Smithsonian on July 1, 2019

A Brief History of Guantanamo Bay, America’s “Idyllic Prison Camp”

A hundred years at the edge of empire.
by Stephen Benz via Literary Hub on January 30, 2019
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