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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.

An eviction moratorium has slowed filings in cities like Richmond, but it hasn’t stopped them, and Black tenants are at highest risk.

Muir's romantic vision obscured Indigenous ownership of the land—but a new generation is pulling away the veil.

Historian Elizabeth Catte traces the history and influence of eugenics from her backyard across the country.

At E. 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, a self-organizing network explores what it means to construct and maintain a public memorial.

New Jersey was known as the slave state of the North, and our early economy was built on unpaid labor.

When I think about the 1870 riot, I remember how the country rejected the opportunity it had.

Opened in 1760, the school may be the oldest still-standing building of its kind.

In 1963, a Black politician named Ben Lewis was shot to death in Chicago. Decades later, it remains no accident authorities never solved the crime.

Thoreau’s life is a lesson not in self-reliance, but in discerning whom and what to rely on, whether you’re one person or a state of 29 million.

The property values of the popular game reflect a legacy of racism and inequality.

Reckoning with the legacy of Japanese internment in the South.

Water—who owns it, who uses it—has shaped this landscape from the Paiutes’ irrigation canals to the Los Angeles aqueduct.