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Mural depicting bluesman John Dee Holeman and friends playing on the front porch of a house.

The Living Legacy of the Piedmont Blues

The music that grew out of Durham's tobacco manufacturing plants influenced some of the most widely recorded musicians of the last 65 years—and still does.
by Marc Farinella via The Assembly on July 14, 2023
Senators Cory Booker and Chuck Grassley conversing.

How Washington Bargained Away Rural America

Every five years, the farm bill brings together Democrats and Republicans. The result is the continued corporatization of agriculture.
by Luke Goldstein via The American Prospect on May 24, 2023
Photograph of horse and buggy carrying Black family migrating North

A Brief History of the Great Migration, when 6 Million Black People Left the South

The Great Migration in the 20th century changed the face of America. For the past few decades, it's been reversing.
by Jalyn Henderson via NBCLX on February 28, 2022
A visualization of the Great Migration depicting individual journeys with lines between cities.

The Great Migration

1915 marked the beginning of the largest domestic migration in American history. Hundreds of thousands of Black Americans began relocating north.
by Will Donnell via wcd.fyi on February 20, 2021

Things as They Are

Dorothea Lange created a vast archive of the twentieth century’s crises in America. For years her work was censored, misused, impounded, or simply rejected.
by Valeria Luiselli via New York Review of Books on October 29, 2020
The five members of The Band in black and white

Is “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” Really a Pro-Confederate Anthem?

The answer may lie in the ear of the beholder.
by Jack Hamilton via Slate on August 13, 2020
Painting of a sinking ship on fire, in which the fire looks like the American flag.

The Confederate Project

What the Confederacy actually was: a proslavery anti-democratic state, dedicated to the proposition that all men were not created equal.
by Stephanie McCurry via Medium on June 16, 2020

The Broken Road of Peggy Wallace Kennedy

All white Southerners live with the sins of their fathers. But what if your dad was one of the most famous segregationists in history?
by Frye Gaillard via The Bitter Southerner on January 6, 2020
Building with sign reading " Elaine: Motherland of Civil Rights"

Arkansas' Phillips County Remembers the Racial Massacre America Forgot

The recent commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the bloody Elaine Massacre sought to correct the historical record and start hard conversations.
by Olivia Paschal via Facing South on October 4, 2019
Hand-drawn map proposing the Appalachian Trail

An Appalachian Trail: A Project in Regional Planning

In its original concept, the Appalachian Trail was a wildly ambitious plan to reorganize the economic geography of the eastern United States.
by Benton MacKaye, Garrett Dash Nelson via Places Journal on April 1, 2019

The Most Dangerous Job: The Murder of America's First Bird Warden

His job was to protect the birds. But nobody was there to protect him.
by Lucas Reilly via Mental Floss on October 30, 2018
Dam from a distance

The Book of the Dead

In Fayette County, West Virginia, expanding the document of disaster.
by Catherine Venable Moore via Oxford American on December 6, 2016

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