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Rodney Cook, Jr.’s Atlanta project seeks to reinvigorate American civic art.

Jim Hale

The history of this barrier island brings about overt fascination and the charm of Fernandina Beach leaves you uplifted.

When I hear some determined soul say “wild horses couldn’t pull me away,” thoughts race through my mind. First, I think of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. You’d think it’d be Mussel

Once a year in February, usually on the coldest and wettest weekend, Wormsloe State Historic Site offers a Colonial Faire and Muster.

With the Enmarket Arena opening, can the example of Ellis Squares five-year reclamation offer a path forward for the Savannah Civic Center site?

The $300,000 bronze statue presents an offensive and historically inaccurate conception of Native people, tribal historians say

A reality T.V. star chosen to represent the chief was approved after a DNA test showed he had a Native ancestor seven generations removed.

A statue due to be a centerpiece in a new Atlanta park is historically flawed, according to historians who have studied its subject: Chief Tomochichi.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Behind every state park, there is a story. Sometimes it's a crazy story, really, like that of Fort Mose, almost hidden away in a tangled forest of scrub palmetto, oak and pine along U.S. Highway 1 just north of St. Augustine. Crazy, in that not many people know it exists but absolutely should. It is here, in the far reaches of Florida's northeast corner, where one of the most important roads to Black history begins.