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The Stono rebellion of 1739 was the biggest slave rebellion in Britain’s North American colonies, but it is barely commemorated.

How did Calle de los Negros get its name? And why did the city raze it in 1887?

When wealthy New Yorkers decided to build Central Park, they eliminated an egalitarian community known as Seneca Village.

300 men and 3,000 miles of bad road.

Mississippi’s outdated textbooks teach an abbreviated version of civil rights, undermining the state’s new ‘innovative’ standards.

Read at your own risk.

Never before have administrations scaled down sites to the extent proposed by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

A community in Ohio keeps the memory of Johnny Appleseed alive.

On September 18, 1977, Youngstown, Ohio, received a blow that it has never recovered from.

The Alamo supposedly honors the courage of Anglos pitted against Mexican brutality. In fact, it is about slavery and emancipation.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

Any critical take on public monuments today must confront the reality that public lands are themselves colonized lands.

As Hurricane Irma prepares to strike, it’s worth remembering that Mother Nature never intended us to live here.

The debate over confederate iconography arrives in the closest thing the U.S. has to an official church.

The 12-year process of creating a "new normal" in Galveston.

A new project tallies the streets named after Confederate leaders alongside those named after civil rights personalities.

Then the factory closed and the union crumbled.

Racial injustice is not a regional sickness. It's a national cancer.

It has to be renamed, state by state.

The Georgia landmark is a testament to the enduring legacy of white supremacy

A desire to fish created an epic 1889 flood.

Ninety years ago in Washington, a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment resulted in horror for Filipinos.

When the Long Hot Summer came to Wisconsin, the reality of race relations was impossible to ignore.

In a city steeped in history, very few residents understand the powerful legacy of opium money.

What E.B. White, Mickey Spillane, Death Wish, hip-hop, and the “Summer of Hell” have in common.

Fossil Cycad National Monument held America's richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn't.

Did Robert Moses ordered engineers to build the Southern State Parkway’s bridges extra-low, to prevent poor people in buses from them? The truth is complex.

Coal country still clings to the industry that was long its chief source of revenue and a way of life.

The women of Telegraph Avenue whose stories remain untold.

Racial violence destroyed an affluent African-American community, seen as a threat to white-dominated American capitalism.