Postcards
Postcard from a Southerner in Harlem
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A visit to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Field Trip
The Shamrock and the Sham
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though in an idyllic setting, I was poised above a mass grave.
Hometown Histories
The Treaty on the Severn River
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Baltimore is Native American land — that’s the first thing I want you to know.
Postcards
A Postcard from Makhanda
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The Historical Association of South Africa held its biennial meeting at Rhodes University in Makhanda, South Africa.
Shorts
A Special Memorialized State
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Facebook was assigning me a place in the past, a place for the dead.
Field Trip
The Desert Keeps Receipts
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We are immersed in a landscape of risk, a damaged place that damages in return.
Features
The Star in the Stones
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The scanned image looked sharper than the framed photograph at my grandmother’s house. And only now did I notice a strange detail.
Shorts
Bowling For Suburbia
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By adopting middle-class aesthetics, the bar-basement bowling alley became the “poor man’s country club.”
Field Trip
Of Strip Mines and Coal Slurry
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I’d spent years living simultaneously inside the West and outside of it.
Shorts
Roads by Other Names
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Renaming streets and erecting statues aren’t nothing—but they aren’t enough, either.
Features
From #TakeEmDown to #TakeEmOn
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She led the movement against Memphis’s Confederate monuments, and now she’s running for mayor. An interview with Tami Sawyer.
Shorts
Selling Angola
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It is the largest maximum-security prison in the United States. So who is going to its gift shop, and why?
Features
War Happens in Dark Places, Too
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In thick woods and swamplands and on small river islands, they bided their time.