Explore the histories of Native nations, including treaties, self-government, land, culture, and ongoing movements for sovereignty.
Editorial illustration · not archival photographyHow Native treaties shaped U.S. expansion, why so many promises were broken, and how sovereignty and treaty rights remain legally important today.
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How the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo redrew the border and reshaped Mexican American citizenship, land claims, and belonging in the Southwest.
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Learn how Angel Island Immigration Station became the West Coast gate where Asian immigrants faced detention, interrogation, and exclusion under U.S. immigratio
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Explore how eminent domain displaced working-class and marginalized communities, reshaping neighborhoods, wealth, and trust in the name of development.
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Learn how U.S. naturalization law tied citizenship to whiteness, how courts defined racial eligibility, and why citizenship became a boundary of belonging.
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Discover the history of restrictive covenants, how they shaped American suburbs, and why their legacy still matters for communities today.
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Learn how company towns used housing, stores, scrip, isolation, and debt to control workers’ wages, mobility, and daily life, especially in coal and industrial
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Explore how housing discrimination continued after redlining — through steering, manipulation, and bias that shaped neighborhoods into the 1980s and beyond.
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Explore how poll taxes and literacy tests suppressed votes after Reconstruction — and why their legacy still matters in today’s fight for democracy.
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How industrialization, poverty, schooling, reform photography, court decisions, and federal law reshaped child labor and childhood in America.
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