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In the 1960s, civil rights activist Floyd McKissick successfully sold President Nixon on an idea of a black built, black-owned community in North Carolina.

Political polarization in the U.S. mirrors its spatial divide.

In the 1930s, the federal government created redlining maps for almost every major U.S. city. Explore those maps and their contexts in a brand new version of this project.

Rare footage from the 1920s, when Oklahoma was home to some 50 African-American towns.

The Bush administration thought an elective war would make America safer. Then Katrina hit.

More than 150 years ago, Frederick Law Olmsted changed how Americans think of public space.

The story of the thousands of free-range pigs who managed New York’s waste in the 1800s.

In August 1966, the Chicago Freedom Movement, Martin Luther King’s campaign to break the grip of segregation, reached its violent culmination.

It’s known as a modern-day hub of progressivism, but its past is one of exclusion.  

The border blurred the stark dividing line between white and black in America, something that Americans like William Ellis used to their advantage.

Racial covenants and housing discrimination in 20th century Minneapolis.

Even Winston Churchill needed a doctor's excuse to get out of Prohibition.

Texas Rangers and vigilantes killed thousands of Mexican-Americans in a campaign of terror. Will Texas acknowledge the bloodshed?

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

A section of D.C.’s Congressional Cemetery has become a gathering place for honoring LGBT activists.

The second part in a series exploring little-seen contributions to cartography.

Novelists concocted elaborate fake histories for mysterious caves in Virginia.

Emma Ray was a leader in battles against poverty, and for temperance.

On the vibrant history of LA’s thriving Syrian American community and its unexpected links with Latin America.

The largest civil rights demonstration in U.S. history was not in Little Rock. Or Selma. Or Montgomery. It happened in New York City.

Thousands of New York City students staged a one-day boycott to protest segregation – and it barely made the history books.

The first initiative to document historic and cultural sites associated with the LGBT community in the five boroughs.

The city council decides to remove four memorials that offered a distorted picture of the city’s past.

The strange tale of the socialites who shaped modern marriage on the American frontier.

19th century Hawai‘i attracted traders, entrepreneurs, and capitalists, who displaced, a flourishing and elaborate culture.

An interactive set of maps and narratives of the forced migration of approximately 850,000 enslaved people from 1810-1860.

An interactive map of immigrant populations in the United States.

An interactive map of overland trails that settlers followed on their western journeys.

The undefeatable South.