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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.

Before there was Vegas, there was Elkton, Maryland. Let's take a trip to this tiny town and tell the story of its former life as elopement capital of the US.

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.

Tourist-driven curiosity about the so-called "haunted asylum" has led many to overlook the real people who once were institutionalized within these hospitals.

A film produced by Western Electric, a haunting glimpse into the construction of the Twin Towers in New York and their early use.

Redlining in Omaha began in the 1920s. Although outlawed in the 1960s, its effects are still present in the city's demographics.

50 years after closing its schools to fight racial integration, a Virginia county still feels the effects.

In the 1920s, Washingtonians dealt with the summer heat by going to the nearest beach...at the Tidal Basin.

In 1968, impoverished Americans flocked to DC to live out MLK's final dream: economic equality for all.

The Obama library lands on Chicago.