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157 years after the famous battle, Gettysburg endured another invasion.

We are at the end of an era, as choices made in the 1970s have created a society that seems unable to cope with a crisis such as that posed by the coronavirus.

During the Civil War, Union soldiers in the West weren’t fighting to end slavery, but to annihilate and remove Native Americans.

For so many of the millions of tourists who come to Orlando, this—Disney, Universal Studios, I-Drive, all of it—stands in for America itself.

The city was once a bustling and infamous Great Lakes port. How should it be remembered?

In 1929, Mayor Porter was part of a long history of city figures who perpetuated white supremacy as a foundational and systemic ideal.

In June, Ohio legislators refused to ban confederate memorabilia from county fairs. The state has long had a complicated relationship with the Confederacy.

Upon discovering that her mother had been a member of the group Women Strike For Peace (WSP), Heidi Hutner becomes obsessed with feminist nuclear history.

Documenting the New York City construction boom at the turn of the 20th century.

Set the Night on Fire isn't just a portrait of a city in upheaval. It's a history of uprisings for civil rights, against poverty, and for a better world.

A collection of interviews with rescue workers who responded to the disaster.

Places of memory up and down the East Coast also witnessed acts of resistance and oppression.

A new book explores the history of the people who have been written out of the L.A. suburb's longtime origin story.

Last week, the mayor announced that the city’s most prominent statue of Christopher Columbus would be removed “as soon as possible.”

After Governor Northam announced its removal, two Richmond historians reflect on the legacy of the Lee Monument.

To what extent did the Union general's famous orders actually liberate the enslaved in Texas?

It was intended to be a tool of political power, sending a message against Black voting and serving as a gathering point for the Ku Klux Klan.

For the white-robed, playing a black team was a gift-wrapped photo op, a chance to show that the Klan was part of the local community.

The holiday is a reminder of the Civil War's larger meaning, the unfulfilled promise of Reconstruction, and the reinforcement of democratic values.

New evidence shows what the 30-foot-tall Confederate memorial was actually meant to commemorate.  

An Illinois high school teacher explains how his state complicates the binary of “free states” and “slave states.”

Contrary to the image of the kneeling slave, Black abolitionists did not wait passively for the "Day of Jubilee." They led the charge.

The New Deal's legacies of infrastructure and economic development, and entrenching structural racism, reveal the potential and mistakes to avoid for the Green New Deal.

A landslide that exposed racial inequalities embedded in Appalachian communities.

Hispanic women and the fight for the 19th Amendment in New Mexico.

Real-estate developers used the statues to draw white buyers to a neighborhood where houses couldn't be sold “to any person of African descent.”

The murders in Duluth offered yet another example that the North was no exception when it came to anti-black violence.

A graphic essay about the brutal toll taken by the epidemic on indigenous communities in Alaska.

Suburbs are getting more diverse, but that doesn't mean they’re woke.

How Detroit cops and courts steer segregation and drive incarceration.