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The Embarcadero Freeway and the Berlin Wall exemplified how the politics of mobility reflected the arrangements of power in each society.

Support for Confederate symbols and monuments follows lines of race, religion, and education rather than geography.

Native people have lived in the Big Bend region of west Texas for thousands of years. Who should claim their remains?

Two recent books examine the idea of the Midwest as a haven for white supremacy and patriarchy.

How Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, a star-studded cemetery in Los Angeles, corporatized mourning in America.

Thomas Downing was a fine-dining pioneer with a secret.

Swampland communities established by self-liberated slaves in Louisiana offer a model to cope with climate disruption.

In Princeville, what’s at stake is not just one town’s survival but a unique window into American history.

Contrary to popular belief, the South has always been the key to defining the promise and limits of American democracy.

Mississippi's Black residents have long fought for access to clean water.

The Hat Riots of 1922 show how arbitrary, elite rules can spur civil unrest.

Two centuries of New England intellectual history through the lives and ideas of people who are memorialized there.

One of the country’s oldest fire lookouts was destroyed last year in the largest wildfire in California’s history. What else is being lost?

Uvalde's current protests against gun control mirror those of student protests in the early 1970s.

The story of a regional ruling class that struck a devil’s bargain with disease, going beyond negligence to cultivate semi-annual yellow fever epidemics.

Rhetoric and representation in the Southern Life History Project.

Three veterans of the civil rights movement fought segregation in St. Augustine, Fla., enduring violence and racism in America’s oldest city.

The legislature established a committee last year to “promote patriotic education.” Drafts of one of its pamphlets reveal an effort to sanitize history.

Housing costs are skyrocketing. History offers a path forward.

On the economic system of Silicon Valley.

Venture into the Montana eatery, once a gambling den and opium repository, that still draws a crowd.

The sweet-yet-somber treat was the star of extravagant 19th-century funeral feasts.

The "Pleasure Gardens" of the 18th Century captivated the public with a heady mix of fantasy and vice.

These invisible chemicals changed the Mohawk way of life. They’re probably already in you, too.

“That spirit of community, which we all talk about as the roots of hip-hop, really originates in that block party concept.”

A new book catalogs the alarming events that created one of the West’s most polluted bodies of water.

San Bernardino County may explore seceding from California. Many of the earliest separatists wanted to transform Southern California into a slave state.

The case for making the street more like the pleasure road Frederick Law Olmsted intended.

Oysters are working tirelessly for the benefit of New York Harbor after years of over-harvesting and sewage-induced turmoil.

Visualizing the legacy of slavery and redlining, 1860 to the present.