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Growing New England's Cities
What can a visualization of population growth in cities and towns in the Northeast tell us about different moments in the region's economic geography?
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Garrett Dash Nelson
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Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
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March 17, 2023
Blame Palo Alto
From Stanford to Silicon Valley, a small town in California spread tech’s gospel of data and control.
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Scott Wasserman Stern
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The New Republic
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February 6, 2023
Astronomy On The Flats
How the moons of Mars and the death of a president altered the late nineteenth-century Washington, DC, landscape.
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Vincent Femia
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The Metropole
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March 8, 2023
The Cult Roots of Health Food in America
How the Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
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Diana Hubbell
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Atlas Obscura
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April 19, 2023
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Gay Bars Are Disappearing. Their Past Holds Keys To Their Future.
Live entertainment, all genders and straight people are back—and were here in the beginning
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Greggor Mattson
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Made by History
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June 2, 2023
Eyewitness Accounts of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
The heart of this book is the sharp and disjointed accounts of survivors, their experience not yet shorn of its surprise.
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Sasha Archibald
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The Public Domain Review
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May 23, 2023
The Black Families Seeking Reparations in California’s Gold Country
Descendants of enslaved people want land seized by the state returned and recognition of the gold rush’s rich, and largely ignored, Black history.
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Michael Scott Moore
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The New Yorker
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May 17, 2023
Can Reparations Bring Black Residents Back to San Francisco?
San Francisco has proposed the nation’s most ambitious reparations plan, including $5 million cash payments and housing aid that aims to bring people back.
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Tim Arango
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New York Times
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May 16, 2023
Fort Hood Gets a New Name: Fort Cavazos
The third-largest U.S. military base will now honor Gen. Richard Edward Cavazos, the first Hispanic American person to be a four-star Army general.
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April Rubin
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New York Times
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May 9, 2023
The Land Beneath This Stadium Once Was Theirs. They Want It Back.
But in the 1950s, the land around the Dodger Stadium belonged to families who are now seeking reparations for what they lost.
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Jesus Jiménez
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New York Times
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May 7, 2023
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Was the Conspiracy That Gripped New York in 1741 Real?
Rumors that enslaved Black New Yorkers were planning a revolt spread across Manhattan even more quickly than the fires for which they were being blamed.
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Ashawnta Jackson
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Andy Doolen
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Richard E. Bond
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Thomas J. Davis
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JSTOR Daily
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April 30, 2023
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.
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Anna Andrzejewski
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Edge Effects
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April 27, 2023
Remembering New York’s Little Syria
The ethnic enclave in Lower Manhattan was home to refugees fleeing civil war and entrepreneurs taking advantage of a globalizing economy.
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Ben Railton
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The Saturday Evening Post
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April 25, 2023
Reclaiming a North Carolina Plantation
On a former plantation in Durham, a land conservancy and two determined sisters are pioneering a model for providing land to Black gardeners and farmers.
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Cynthia R. Greenlee
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Garden & Gun
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April 24, 2023
Rhythm Night Club Fire: Tragedy Devastated Young Black Natchez
In April 1940, Walter Barnes and His Royal Creolians continued to play to calm the crowd as the Natchez Rhythm Night Club burned.
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Karen L. Cox
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Mississippi Free Press
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April 21, 2023
The Cult Roots of Health Food in America
How the Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
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Diana Hubbell
via
Atlas Obscura
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April 19, 2023
Zora Neale Hurston’s Hometown in Florida Is in Peril
Historic Black towns should not have to sell off pieces of the past to underwrite the present.
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Nick Tabor
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New York Times
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April 17, 2023
The Coast-to-Coast Road Trip is 120 Years Old
In 1903, a doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. The first coast-to-coast road trip in history took 63 days and cost $8,000.
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Frank Jacobs
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Big Think
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April 11, 2023
When the Klan Ruled Indiana… And Had Plans to Spread Its Empire of Hate Across America
The Klan dens of the heartland were powerful, vicious, and ambitious. Indiana was their bastion.
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Timothy Egan
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Literary Hub
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April 4, 2023
Staten Island, Forgotten Borough
Staten Island gets a lot of disrespect from other New Yorkers, some of it fair. But it has its own fascinating people’s history.
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James Bosco
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Current Affairs
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April 3, 2023
What Nevada Stole from Its Indigenous People
Senator Pat McCarran’s vision for the desert carried a tradition of dispossession into the mid-20th century.
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Taylor Rose
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Zócalo Public Square
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April 3, 2023
The Parsonage
An unprepossessing townhouse in the East Village has been central to a series of distinctive events in New York City history.
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David Hajdu
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Places Journal
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April 1, 2023
White Gold from Black Hands: The Gullah Geechee Fight for a Legacy after Slavery
Descendants of the west Africans who picked the cotton that made Manchester rich are struggling to keep their distinct culture alive.
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DeNeen L. Brown
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The Guardian
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March 30, 2023
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Luna Park and the Amusement Park Boom
The fortunes of Coney Island have waxed and waned, but in the early twentieth century, its amusement parks became a major American export.
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Betsy Golden Kellem
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JSTOR Daily
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March 29, 2023
Black Homeownership Before World War II
From the 1920s-1940s, North, West, and South Philadelphia saw its Black population increase by 50-80% as white flight occurred.
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Menika Dirkson
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Black Perspectives
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March 29, 2023
Unbreakable: Glass in the Rust Belt
Domestic glass manufacturing in the U.S. remains concentrated in the Rust Belt. But studio glassblowing is adding relevance to a long forgotten material.
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Dora Segall
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Belt Magazine
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March 29, 2023
Slavery and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey
While documented revolts of enslaved persons in New Jersey aren’t abundant, some examples speak to the spirit of resistance among African people held captive.
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Rann Miller
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Black Perspectives
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March 27, 2023
Monuments Upon the Tumultuous Earth
For thousands of years, Indigenous societies were building hundred-foot pyramids along the Mississippi River.
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Boyce Upholt
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Emergence Magazine
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March 23, 2023
In Hanover, A Name is More than a Name
The sudden push to rename a historic school that educated scores of Black students reeks of revenge.
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Samantha Willis
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Virginia Mercury
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March 20, 2023
A Florida Town, Once Settled By Former Slaves, Now Fights Over "Sacred Land"
In Eatonville, one of the few Black towns to have survived incorporation, locals are fighting to preserve 100 acres of land from being sold to developers.
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Martha Teichner
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CBS News
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March 19, 2023
Growing New England's Cities
What can a visualization of population growth in cities and towns in the Northeast tell us about different moments in the region's economic geography?
by
Garrett Dash Nelson
via
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
on
March 17, 2023
The Obscene Invention of California Capitalism
A new history examines Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, the West Coast's settler ideology, and recent turbulence in the world of tech.
by
Malcolm Harris
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Emma Hager
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The Nation
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March 15, 2023
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The Surprising Roots of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Idea of National Divorce
Greene probably has visions of suburban Atlanta in the 1990s and 2000s, not the Civil War.
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Michan Connor
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Made by History
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March 14, 2023
What Survives
Lacy M. Johnson walks through a nature center near Houston that has reclaimed the land where a neighborhood, sunken by oil extraction and floodwater, once stood.
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Lacy M. Johnson
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Emergence Magazine
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March 9, 2023
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