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Rediscovering America tells the inspiring stories of forgotten, overlooked or misunderstood aspects of the US, flipping the script on familiar history, cultures and communities.

Matilda Joslyn Gage: The suffragist who defied the US government (Credit: Laura Byrne Paquet)
Rediscovering America

The woman who defied the US government

By Laura Byrne Paquet

Druid Heights: The US' hidden LGBTQ+ community (Credit: wayfarerlife photography/Getty Images)
Rediscovering America

The LGBTQ+ landmark almost no one knows

By Melanie Haiken
Sir Lancelot Jones: The Black farmer who inspired a US park (Credit: Constance Mier/Alamy)
Rediscovering America

The Black farmer who inspired a US park

By Karuna Eberl
King David La'amea Kalākaua: The first king to travel around the world (Credit: Jeffrey Isaac Greenberg 11+/Alamy)
Rediscovering America

The only US city with a royal residence

By Wendy Awai-Dakroub
The Kentucky Derby's forgotten Black past (Credit: Thomas Kelley/Alamy)
Rediscovering America

The true story of the Kentucky Derby

By Tracey Teo
Matthew Henson: The US' unsung Black explorer (Credit: Nelly George/Alamy)
Rediscovering America

Who really discovered the North Pole?

By Robert Isenberg
Mary Colter: The woman who shaped the US Southwest (Credit: Santi Rodriguez/Alamy)
Rediscovering America

The untold story of the Grand Canyon

By Erin Van Rheenen
Kouri-Vini: The return of the US' lost language (Credit: North Wind Picture Archives/Alamy)
Rediscovering America

The return of the US' lost language

By Tracey Teo
Phillis Wheatley: The unsung Black poet who shaped the US (Credit: Paul Matzner/Alamy)
Rediscovering America

The Black poet who defied the US

By Robin Catalano
How the Transcontinental railroad forever changed the US (Credit: ClassicStock/Alamy)
Rediscovering America

The railway that forever changed the US

By Ellen Lee
Barbara Johns: The US' forgotten civil rights hero (Credit: Randy Duchaine/Alamy)
Rediscovering America

The black teen who ousted a Confederate

By Larry Bleiberg
The US' 2,000-year-old mystery mounds (Credit: Ohio History Connection)
Rediscovering America

The US' 2,000-year-old mystery mounds

By Brandon Withrow
Renderings from an 1883 Harper's Weekly story paint a vivid picture of this early Filipino settlement (Credit: Alpha Stock/Alamy)
Rediscovering America

The first Asian settlement in the US

By Stephanie Jane Carter
A museum 2,300 years in the making (Credit: Bonnie Cameron/Getty Images)
Rediscovering America

A former slavery port faces its history

By Tracey Teo
Kanaye Nagasawa: The samurai who forever changed California (Credit: Ed Reschke/Getty Images)
Rediscovering America

How a samurai forever shaped California

By Melanie Haiken
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Rediscovering America

Washington DC's hidden boundary stones

By Barbara Noe Kennedy

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