Current Events that Relate to History

“Monuments” an exhibition in Los Angeles, interrogates the changing meanings of Civil War-era statues and their ability to shape historical narrative.

Washington won by resilience, enduring defeats in New York yet securing key victories and ultimately shaping a stable, democratic nation.

The TVA had more than its share of problems: paternalism towards the South, anti-Black racism, and indifference to environmental consequences.

The Plaza is a case study in the lengths to which New York’s leaders have gone to find gargantuan sums of money to enact wild new visions for the state.

For a brief period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Texas was home to a working-class, populist environmental movement. What might its legacy be today?

Tracing the many forms that environmentalism has taken in the U.S., from transcendentalism and conservationism to the 20th century push for regulation to today's climate justice movement.