Nearly 11 million acres of Indigenous land. Approximately 250 tribes, bands and communities. Over 160 violence-backed treaties and land seizures. Fifty-two universities. With the information provided in the database, you can untangle the powerful and painful strains of myth and…

PROMOTING INDIGENOUS DATA SOVEREIGNTY THROUGH DECOLONIZING DATA AND INDIGENOUS DATA GOVERNANCE Indigenous data sovereignty is the right of a nation to govern the collection, ownership, and application of its own data. It derives from tribes’ inherent right to govern their…

Scarlet and Black is the title of the project undertaken by the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Populations in Rutgers History, created in 2015 by Rutgers University–New Brunswick Chancellor Richard L. Edwards. With his guidance, the committee was charged with seeking…

The National Monument Audit, produced by Monument Lab in partnership with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, assesses the current monument landscape across the United States. Monument Lab’s research team spent a year scouring almost a half million records of historic properties…

By Jill Lepore September 27, 2021 When Deidre Barnes was a kid in North Carolina, horsing around in the back seat of the car with her little brother, her grandfather drove by the woods in a white neighborhood in Durham. “You…

Tour Locations Parade Ground Van Cortlandt House Tippett Homesite Colonial Road Mill Stone Mill Site Mill Pond Kingsbridge Burial Ground African Burial Ground For approximately 200 years, the Van Cortlandt family plantation relied upon the labor of enslaved people, as…

On the 30th year anniversary of the discovery of the Lower Manhattan African Burial Ground, Dr. Michael Blakey shares lessons.

Views from the Watershed is a podcast tour about the past, present, and future of NYC’s water supply in the Catskills region. It tells the story of the complicated relationship between the Catskills and New York City that is forged by water infrastructure. It will lead you to resonant places in the watershed where its stories can be told, through firsthand, intimate perspectives from local people on what it means to be a part of the water system.

Historians studying the Netherlands’ history sometimes refer to the 17th century as the “Dutch Golden Age.” The term refers to an era of unprecedented wealth in the Dutch Republic, when artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer painted masterpieces and…