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William Eggleston’s photographs of the South on the eve of the 1976 election captured an eerie quiet.

In the small town of Ocoee, Fla., a racist mob went on a rampage after a Black man tried to cast his ballot on Nov. 2, 1920.

The ideals of the Confederate South found new force in the bloody plains of the American West.

Uncovering the truth about the 1898 massacre of black voters in Wilmington, North Carolina.

The only coup in American history came after scare-mongering that wouldn't sound out of place in 2020.

Covid-19 and climate change are drastically intensifying insecurity in New Orleans.

In the 1950s, residents of Mosinee, Wisconsin, staged a coup to warn of the red menace. The lessons of that historical footnote have never been more relevant.

Life across the United States in 1880.

The intertwining of white flour, nutrition science, and profit.

The collapse of John C. Calhoun's statue created a sound not unlike artillery in the war he influenced.

Outright racism met financial opportunity when men like Isiah Rynders accrued wealth through legal, but nefarious, means.

The haute beachwear known as the bikini was named after a string of islands turned into a nuclear wasteland by atomic bomb testing.

What's behind the name of the state? And who was our first president, really?

Till was murdered 65 years ago. Sites of commemoration across the Mississippi Delta still struggle with what’s history and what’s hearsay.

A digital companion to "We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us," telling the story of Native American resistance to forced resettlement on reservations.

A dispatch from a tour of a Cold War-era nuclear test site in the Mojave Desert.

St. Paul and Minneapolis have a history as long, deep, and twisted as the Mississippi River.

The stretches one Detroit suburb made to justify a name change — the ‘burb’s supposedly colorblind arguments were anything but.

Native traditions and novel discoveries tell the migration story of the ancestors of the Navajo and Apache.

Though some have likened it to Sodom and Gomorrah, New York City has a long history of religious vibrancy.

It’s the biggest battle on U.S. soil that most Americans have never heard of.

What does the way we mourn, remember, and care for our dead say about us?

As Trump calls for legions to, as he proclaimed, 'go into the polls,' we should recall the sordid episode of voter intimidation that happened in Orange County.

Nick Sacco takes a moment to remember the 15th Amendment.

A state with an often-overlooked history of enslavement demonstrates the lasting significance and geographic reach of the Haitian Revolution.

Once the COVID crisis is over, it may take us quite some time to process and psychologically recover from this tragedy.

For more than seven decades, the North Carolina memorial has courted controversy in unexpected forms.

Historians say that a major milestone in the history of school integration is often left out of the civil rights story.

Centuries before Columbus, Vikings came to the Western hemisphere. How far into the Americas did they travel?

Teaching accurate history about white supremacy may be painful, but it's essential.