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Cast of Hamilton take a curtain call.

Who Tells America's Story? 'Hamilton,' Hip-Hop, and Me

How the hit musical allows those who have been left out of the story to claim the narrative of America as their own.

by Marcella White Campbell via Baker Street Blues on March 15, 2016

Iron Eyes Cody meets Jimmy Carter, who is wearing a Native American headdress

Among the Tribe of the Wannabes

A closer look at non-Native Americans that appropriate, fabricate, and invent Native identities for themselves.

by Russell Cobb via This Land Press on August 26, 2014

Names in Ellis Island log of immigrants.

Why Your Family Name Was Not Changed at Ellis Island (and One That Was)

It is more likely that immigrants were their own agents of change.

by Philip Sutton via The New York Public Library on July 2, 2013

The Colfax Riot

Stumbling on a forgotten Reconstruction tragedy, in a forgotten corner of Louisiana.

by Richard Rubin via The Atlantic on August 22, 2003

Family register sampler sewed by Abigail Barnard, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1833.

Finding Ancestors

The many ways of knowing those who came before us.

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