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In 1948, the landfill at Fresh Kills was marketed to Staten Island as a stopgap measure. No one guessed that it would remain open for more than half a century.

A century of failed liberal attempts at policing reform in Minneapolis suggests that none of the city’s current proposals will prevent another George Floyd.

In the years after the Civil War, some wanted a new seat of government that would be closer to the geographic center of a growing nation.

A group of activists is calling attention to the legacy of slavery encoded in the names of New York City’s streets and neighborhoods.

A nation that identifies itself with nature begins to fall apart when it can no longer agree on what nature is.

A 1918 debate offers a portrait of the challenges facing local officials during a health emergency.

A revised history of the interstate highway system.

Some of the same Lexington townspeople who took up arms to fight for freedom on April 19, 1775, were slave owners. And one of them was enslaved.

For centuries, settlers pushed Natives off the land. But they continued to use indigenous language to name, describe, and anoint the world around them.

The Texan secessionists are at it again.

The national parks are the closest thing America has to sacred lands, and like the frontier of old, they can help forge our democracy anew.

A border policy divorced from history can’t do what policymakers want.

Dance marathons were essentially the Netflix dating show of the Great Depression.

A Virginia congressman has filed a bill to make the swamp a National Heritage Site.

Whereas southern Klansmen assaulted Black Americans and their white allies, western vigilantes targeted those they deemed a greater threat: Chinese immigrants.

The history of resistance to racial oppression includes armed, violent resistance.

The KKK was clearly present at Harvard. But the university rarely mentions the 20th century in its attempts to reckon with its past.

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Geronimo, Robert Oppenheimer, Steven Spielberg, and the mysteries of New Mexico's desert.

A signee of the U.S. Constitution, John Dickinson enslaved as many as 59 men, women and children at one time.

The $10 million initiative will provide housing and mortgage assistance to address discrimination.

Understanding this history helps make the case for D.C. as the 51st state.

Soul City in North Carolina was designed to build Black wealth and address racial injustice. Then its opponents lined up.

How the push for statehood led a beacon of racial progress to oppression and violence.

Maps of historic housing discrimination show how neighborhoods that suffered redlining in the 1930s face a far higher risk of flooding today.

Racial justice is now as much a part of the debate as environmentalism vs. oil drilling.

One Texas Republican state House member wants to create a “patriotic” education project to celebrate the Lone Star State—and whitewash its ugly past.

The city will memorialize part of its darkest history at the refurnished Walnut Street Bridge.

Oregon became ground zero of America’s racial reckoning protests last summer. But activists say it doesn’t know its own history.

A new book shows us the capital region's earliest years through the eyes and the experiences of leaders like Harriet Tubman and Elizabeth Keckley.

The restoration of the Air Force Academy Chapel is the U.S.’s most complex modernist preservation project ever.