How Rising Sea Levels Threaten America’s Cultural Heritage
The most comprehensive archeological database created to date finds that just a one-meter rise in sea level could imperil thousands of historically significant sites.
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America Is Experiencing a Front Porch Resurgence
People around the U.S. are rediscovering their fondness for a classic architectural staple.
The Invention of Thanksgiving
The long and sometimes bloody history of how we came to celebrate Turkey Day.
A Robot Analysis of All of America’s State of the Union Addresses
The dataset includes an address for nearly every year from 1790 to 2014.
America’s Lost Generation of Asian Immigrants
How the Chinese contribution to the Transcontinental Railroad, held up as a shining moment in Asian American history, led to a ban on almost all Asian immigration to the U.S.