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After decades of reading, writing, and teaching about the American past, Ed Ayers sets out to see how that past is remembered in the places where it happened.

Smell’s diffuse nature requires crossing the boundaries of several subfields within the historical discipline, but also moving beyond the boundaries of history alone.

The artist’s experiences in the Civil War and after helped him transcend stereotypes in portraying Black experience.

Let us let the ghosts of the megafauna rise, but let us leave the old imperialists to lie in their graves undisturbed.

Fewer fires are burning worldwide than at any time since antiquity. But in banishing fire from sight, we have made its dangers stranger and less predictable.

Environment, British occupation, and The winter of 1779-1780.

New maps can revive Cherokee place names in Southern Appalachia and restore crucial knowledge amid an environmental catastrophe.

In 1943, Ansel Adams traveled to photograph Manzanar—one of the ten internment camps that together detained 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

In Oakland, California, when it comes to Black homelessness and dispossession, dystopia is already here.

At three plantations in Charleston, S.C., Black descendants are connecting with their family’s history and helping reshape the narrative.

A massive assessment of the nation's current monument landscape, posing questions about common knowledge and debunking misperceptions within public memory.

A brief history of trying to save city streets from pet waste.

The way we commemorate those who have made the ultimate sacrifice dates to the Civil War.

Traditional environmentalism has lacked a meaningful, practical democratic vision, rendering it largely marginal to the day-to-day lives of most Americans.

The island was once a place of working-class ingenuity and Black daring.

At the South Carolina State House, the history of Reconstruction has been systemically erased from view.

During WWI the act of hearing was recast as a tactical activity — one that could determine human and even national survival.

If we accept that we live in a desert nation, we can glean insights about how to live with aridity.

"Virginia Arcadia: The Natural Bridge in American Art,” at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, surveys the arch as icon and propaganda.

Can a cross-border effort to bring wild bison to the Great Plains restore one of the world's most endangered ecosystems?

Los Angeles is finding success at reshaping its commemorative landscape.

A nation that identifies itself with nature begins to fall apart when it can no longer agree on what nature is.

A Story Map that highlights events, sites, and people important to Native American history.

In Massachusetts, the inclusion of Native American names and places in local geography has obscured the violence of political and territorial dispossession.

Connecting present-day environmental inequalities to redlining policies of the 1930s.

Native minstrelsy and the American summer camp movement.

A geologist and cartographer dreamed up a captivating, colorful, visually succinct way of representing the river's fluctuations through space and time.

The Confederate memorial carving at Georgia’s Stone Mountain is etched with more than a century of racist history. But tearing it down won’t be so easy.

Upon discovering that her mother had been a member of the group Women Strike For Peace (WSP), Heidi Hutner becomes obsessed with feminist nuclear history.

Evidence shows Native Americans in New England lived lightly on the land for thousands of years. Europeans were the first to majorly impact the environment.