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Painting of the mouth of a cave.

Down in the Hole: Outlaw Country and Outlaw Culture

Country music has often stood, as it were, with one foot in and one foot out of the cave.
by Max Fraser via Southern Cultures on October 16, 2018
A field of gravestones.

Good Bones

What is a small, historically-minded community meant to do with something like Western State Hospital?
by Elizabeth Catte via Popula on September 25, 2018

The First Floridians

In St. Augustine lie the ruins of Fort Mose, built in 1738 as the first free black settlement in what would become the United States.
by Jordan Blumetti via The Bitter Southerner on September 3, 2018
Two people sitting in camping cabin.

How to Live ‘Amid the Silence of the Woods,' According to America’s First Camping Guide

The history of camping in the U.S. starts in the Adirondacks, with a guidebook that became an instant bestseller.
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on July 23, 2018

A History of Pizza

The world’s most popular fast food has ancient roots and a royal pedigree.
by Alexander Lee via History Today on June 28, 2018

Jefferson’s Monticello Finally Gives Sally Hemings Her Place in Presidential History

New exhibits put slavery at the center of Monticello's story, and make it clear that Jefferson was the father of Hemings' children.
by Philip Kennicott via Washington Post on June 13, 2018

A New Golden Age for the Tiki Bar

Half a century after the tropical craze of the 1960s, the modern age of escapism is taking cues from the past.
by Kara Newman via The Atlantic on June 5, 2018

The Disputed Second Life of an American Internment Camp

A debate over a planned fence around the site where people of Japanese ancestry, mostly American citizens, were forcibly interned.
by Alastair Boone via CityLab on May 24, 2018

The Factory That Oreos Built

A new owner for the New York City landmark offers a tasty opportunity to recap a crème-filled history.
by Katherine Martinelli via Smithsonian on May 21, 2018
Railworkers watch dignitaries on an approaching train.
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How Slave Labor Built the State of Florida—Decades After the Civil War

Behind the whitewashed history of the Sunshine State.
by Bryan Bowman, Kathy Roberts Forde via Made By History on May 17, 2018

A New Kind Of City Tour Shows The History Of Racist Housing Policy

Redlining tours explain how policies designed to keep minorities out of certain areas shaped the urban landscapes we see today.
by Adele Peters via Fast Company on April 23, 2018
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Encountering the Plantation Myth Where You'd Least Expect It

Well off Savannah's tourist trail, there's a replica of an antebellum plantation home in the middle of a public housing project.
by Kevin M. Levin on January 19, 2018

Amazon or Independence Hall? Development vs. Preservation in the City of Philadelphia

A history of Independence Hall offers an example of how old buildings and open spaces are not always ripe sites for development.
by Whitney Martinko via Hindsights on December 11, 2017

The Painful History of a Confederate Monument Tells Itself

Haunting archival footage of Stone Mountain's creation.
by Emily Buder via The Atlantic on December 1, 2017
1870 cartoon of people going camping

The Religious Roots of America's Love for Camping

How a minister's accidental bestseller launched the country's first outdoor craze.
by Terence Young via What It Means to Be American on October 12, 2017
Vintage Georgia postcard.

The Un-Pretty History Of Georgia's Iconic Peach

Why are Georgia peaches so iconic? The answer has a lot to do with slavery — its end and a need for the South to rebrand itself.
by Tove Danovich via NPR on July 21, 2017
A fossilized cyad.

How a National Monument Full of Fossils Was Stolen to Death

Fossil Cycad National Monument held America's richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn't.
by Cara Giaimo via Atlas Obscura on July 11, 2017

African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century

An obscure legal loophole is often to blame.
by Leah Douglas via The Nation on June 26, 2017

The Curious History of Ellis Island

Ellis Island celebrates its 125th anniversary as the federal immigration depot.
by Matthew Wills, R. Lawrence Swanson, Donald F Squires via JSTOR Daily on January 1, 2017

"Nature’s Nation": The Hudson River School and American Landscape Painting, 1825–1876

How American landscape painters, seen as old-fashioned and provincial, gained cultural power by glorifying expansionism.
by Linda Ferber via Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History on May 1, 2016
Crowd in front of Washington Monument for presidential inauguration
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Monumental Disagreements

On America's iconic monuments and the idea of national remembrance.
via BackStory on May 24, 2013
Quartzite, Nevada

Tales of Desert Nomads

Tracing the long strange trip of the American Southwest, from military camels to retirees in RVs.
by Robert Sumrell, Kazys Varnelis via Cabinet on March 20, 2006
Ships on fire and being evacuated at Pearl Harbor.

Pearl Harbor as Metaphor

At the frontier of American empire.
by John Gregory Dunne via The New Yorker on April 29, 2001

Henry Ford, the Wayside Inn, and the Problem of 'History Is Bunk'

Debunking the quotation that inspired our name.
by Roger Butterfield via Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society on June 1, 1965
Drawing of a memorial, with two cutout, brown walls at the front of a walkway that read: reckoning. At the end of the walkway is a monument with a picture of Fred Rouse, and an inscription below it.

Fort Worth's Forgotten Lynching: In Search of Fred Rouse

Retracing the steps of a Texan lynched in 1921 requires a trip through dark days in state history.
by Karen Olsson via The Texas Observer

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