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Sheryll Cashin’s “White Space, Black Hood” shows how economic discrimination combines with racial injustice in America’s housing policy.

Once derided as cesspools of Reagan-era consumerist excess, the shopping mall somehow became an unlikely sort-of quasi-public space that is now disappearing.

Decades before Thoreau's famous experiment, a community of formerly enslaved men and women had a much different experience of life in the woods.

Tens of thousands of Indigenous people labored in bondage across the western United States in the 1800s.

The settlers who are mythologized at Thanksgiving as peace-loving Pilgrims were offering cash for Native American heads less than a generation later.

How Transcendentalism, the American philosophy that championed the individual, caught on in tight-knit Concord, Massachusetts.

How come it's so hard to go in sweet privacy when you're out and about?

You get no windows. You take what you can get.

In Oakland, California, when it comes to Black homelessness and dispossession, dystopia is already here.

After the U.S Supreme Court forced school integration in early 1970, white families fled to either racist Central Academy or new Mennonite schools.

A digital atlas that visualizes Manhattan’s and Brooklyn’s transformations during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Long buried, the 1871 Chinese Massacre surfaces amid a significant anniversary and a new wave of violence.

They’re hip, business-savvy, and know how to cast a spell: How a new generation of witches and warlocks selling $300 wands conquered Salem.

Tree ring evidence of an ancient solar storm enables scientists to pinpoint the exact year of Norse settlement.

They believed that wealth should have no bearing on a citizen’s voting power.

How New Yorkers trying to ward off catastrophe paved the road to the privatized city.

From drowning to murders to the mental toll of isolation, these stoic towers carry a full share of tragedy.

Acknowledging the queer culture of the Harlem Renaissance is essential in order to paint a full picture of the period.

One of the last survivors of Boston’s Gangland War of the 1960s opens up about his notorious past.

Fifty years ago, Disney World's celebrated opening promised joy and inspiration to all; today the theme park is reckoning with its white middle-class past.

The fate of electrified “rural trolleys” at the beginning of 20th century could offer lessons for today’s train boosters.

In 1831, a group of white rioters razed the Providence neighborhood of Snowtown. Now, archaeologists are excavating its legacy.

In 1992, thousands of drunken cops raged against the mayor of New York — leaving an indelible mark on the city’s likely next mayor.

Exploring the history of U.S. empire through the story of Fort Huachuca – the “Guardian of the Frontier.”

This digital exploration of the region's LGBTQ community from 1946 to 1992 includes an interactive map and several thematic StoryMaps.

A brief history of trying to save city streets from pet waste.

An interactive virtual stroll down Flatbush Avenue circa 1914, compiled from Subway Construction photos published by the NY Historical Society.

As African Americans achieved economic success in Atlanta in the early 1900s, the city simmered with racial strife that was further spread by yellow journalism.

An immigrant born to working-class activism stands up to an NYPD reborn in the CIA's image.

Members of what is perhaps the oldest Asian community in the United States are committed to preserving—and sharing—their story.