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Poster for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show reenactment of Custer's last stand.

The Indians Win

Why have Americans been obsessed with this one loss rather than dozens of victories?

via National Museum Of The American Indian on February 19, 2018

Playing Indian

How a fight over Native American symbolism in Oregon brought to light the conflict at America's core.

by Alex Ronan via The Outline on September 26, 2017

Petroglyphs at Chaco Canyon.

This New Mexico Petroglyph Might Reveal an Ancient Solar Eclipse

In 1097, a Pueblo artist may have etched a rare celestial event into the rock for all of posterity

by Ben Panko via Smithsonian on August 17, 2017

How Advertisers Have Used Maps to Try to Sell You Stuff

A huge collection of “persuasive maps” — newly available online — reveals how our trust in cartography can be used to sway us.

by Betsy Mason via National Geographic on May 5, 2017

The Gadsden Flag

The Shifting Symbolism of the Gadsden Flag

How do we decide what the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag, or indeed any symbol, really means?

by Robert J. Walker via The New Yorker on October 2, 2016

Will the Real Henry “Box” Brown Please Stand Up?

New information on Henry Box Brown, an enslaved man who would turn escape into an art form.

by Martha J. Cutter via Commonplace on September 1, 2015

Women of the American Revolution (in the fashion of the day) sewing a flag for the new republic.

Homespun Wisdom

A discussion of the patriotic attempt to spurn European fashion and spin cloth at home in the time leading up to the Revolutionary War.

via BackStory on August 28, 2015

Living History: The John Feathers Map Collection

A documentary about an extraordinary hidden treasure and the reclusive soul that protected it for years.

by Alec Ernest via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 8, 2015

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, far left, interviewing Black filmmakers Mario Van Peebles, Neema Barnette, John Singleton, Reginald Hudlin, and Warrington Hudlin (left to right).

Soul of Black Identity: New Jack Cinema

A conversation with some of the hottest filmmakers on the scene: They're young, they're Black, but they're making green.

by MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on August 16, 1991

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