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The Mourning Woman emerged during a revival of classical symbolism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century gravestone iconography.

Confronting a long tradition of projecting fantasies onto the South Bronx.

How urban planners and suburban shoppers responded when “the storage of dead vehicles on roadways” became a nuisance to street users.

An artist-activist catalogues the physical remnants of 'segregation walls,' unassuming bits of racist infrastructure that hide in plain sight in neighborhoods.

Fidel Castro's visit to Harlem at the intersection of two themes that shaped the 1960s: the Black freedom struggle and global protest during the Cold War.

A geologist and cartographer dreamed up a captivating, colorful, visually succinct way of representing the river's fluctuations through space and time.

A lethal incident of police brutality in Miami in 1979 offers just one of countless examples of the reality generations of African Americans have faced.

The story of William Higginbotham & the Black community in Civil War Rome.

The little-known story of the laborers who became pawns in a Floridian struggle during the American Revolution.

The confluence of Black and Indigenous history at Bdote.

How the myth of a liberal North erases a long history of white violence.

South Dakota has been called "the Mississippi of the North" for its long history of making voting hard for Native Americans.

A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left.

Ordinances, arrests, and celebrations during the influenza epidemic.

“This is not just history about Black Americans. This is American history. Slavery is American history. And we want people to understand that.”

Beneath the popular folk song, “Swannanoa Tunnel” and the railroad tracks that run through Western North Carolina is a story of blood, greed, and obfuscation.

On the mythologies behind urban renewal.

A collage artist explores how Louisiana's ecological and epidemiological disasters are founded in colonialism.

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

Chicago has been a skunk haven for centuries.

The United Stated Emigrant Escort Service and settler colonialism during the Civil War.

A brief history on land ownership, valuation and development in the City of Richmond and the maps used to destroy black communities.

The loudest opponents to police funding were once fiscal conservatives.

157 years after the famous battle, Gettysburg endured another invasion.

We are at the end of an era, as choices made in the 1970s have created a society that seems unable to cope with a crisis such as that posed by the coronavirus.

During the Civil War, Union soldiers in the West weren’t fighting to end slavery, but to annihilate and remove Native Americans.

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.

The city was once a bustling and infamous Great Lakes port. How should it be remembered?

In 1929, Mayor Porter was part of a long history of city figures who perpetuated white supremacy as a foundational and systemic ideal.

In June, Ohio legislators refused to ban confederate memorabilia from county fairs. The state has long had a complicated relationship with the Confederacy.