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Some years the virus would wipe out a tenth of the population, earning New Orleans the nickname "Necropolis."

His job was to protect the birds. But nobody was there to protect him.

A school district owns the property where the bodies of 95 black convict-lease prisoners from Jim Crow era were buried.

A roadside marker program in New York State embraces the gray area between official history and local lore.

The intertwined history of mass incarceration and environmentalism in Upstate New York's prison-building boom.

Some white Northerners see a flag rooted in racism as a symbol of patriotism.

Asking difficult questions often comes at a cost.

For generations, a North Carolina town founded by former slaves has been disproportionately affected by environmental calamity.

The battle over where the papers of the Republic of Texas should reside reminds us of the politics of historical memory.

Mapping offered geographers and their readers an opportunity to understand and influence how empires transitioned into something else.

Columbus wasn't unique in his belief that bizarre, monstrous humanoids inhabited the far reaches of the world.

A handful of images from Chicago as it was some 75 years ago.

In 2001, two men were killed by the FBI at a farm in Michigan. Then, 9/11 happened.

Even as Black Wall Street gentrifies, unresolved questions remain about one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history.

In September 1868, Southern white Democrats hunted down around 200 African-Americans in an effort to suppress voter turnout.

Sherilynn A. Ifill on justice (and its absence) in the 1930s.

While lynching is most closely associated with former Confederate states, hundreds were committed elsewhere in the country.

Sean Carswell looks into James M. Cain and his time reporting on the West Virginia Mine Wars.

What is a small, historically-minded community meant to do with something like Western State Hospital?

The city sought to sell bonds to pay for the war effort, while bringing its citizens together during the infamous pandemic

Today's housing crisis in San Francisco originates from zoning laws that segregated racial groups and income levels.

The First World War prompted the politicization of nearly all aspects of American life.

Even Magic Kingdoms need urban planners.

Women fighting for the ballot saw German men as backward, ignorant, and less worthy of citizenship than themselves.

On the origins of the Lost Cause of the Lowcountry.

Remembering Castle Garden, a nineteenth-century immigrant welfare state.

Rapidly rising metropolitan land value can mean "striking gold" for some landowners while threatening the livelihood of others.

Sports, politics, and civic identity in modern Philadelphia.

In Charleston, a monument to John C. Calhoun squares off against its symbolic rival, the steeple of Emanuel A.M.E. Church, where a white supremacist killed nine.

History tells us that Trump's proposed wall will not work, and that it will do more damage than good.