From the perspective of the "lower 48,” those little contiguous states far to the south, Alaska’s cultural legacy may seem limited—perhaps some evidence of the great Klondike gold rush, and weren’t the Russians there a long time ago? more...

In 1955, a man investigating a groundhog hole in southwest Pennsylvania came across what was to become one of the most important archeological sites in North America. more...

Restless, bored, and grieving the recent death of his father, the young man watched the shoreline drift slowly past from the deck of a departing ship. more...

Alaska changed forever with the law that came to be in 1980, especially for native peoples. more...

For 133 years, the Bodie Island Light Station has been a reassurance to mariners navigating the “graveyard of the Atlantic” off North Carolina’s Outer Banks. more...

It was the twilight of the mythic sout, when machines were replacing field hands and African Americans were migrating out in great numbers, looking for new lives in cities like Chicago and Detroit. A domestic worker at the Melrose Plantation in Natchitoches, Louisiana, picked up some discarded paint and brushes she’d found and commenced depicting the life she’d known in bright primary colors. more...