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A young boy hovers expectantly near a snowball vendor in 1940s Harlem Park

Decoding Black Stories Built Into the Environment

Students Take Deep Dive Into Links Between African American History, Architecture and Urban Planning

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streetcar travels on Canal Street in New York City

History Professor Specializing in Slavery, Resistance Named Andrew Carnegie Fellow

Richard Bell to Receive $200,000 to Research Book on Desegregation of Public Transit in New York City

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Wallace D. Loh, Benjamin Hallowell, John B. Slaughter collage

Picturing Presidents Past

As Pines Gears Up for Inaugural Address, We Revisit Ceremonies of His Predecessors

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African American students demonstrate against the Vietnam War on the steps of the Main Administration Building

UMD Libraries, Others Partner on $750K to Archive Social Justice Activism by College Students of Color

Grant From The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Support Documentation, Digitization, Workshops

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Jordana Moore Saggese

Professor Makes Space for Black Art in Academic Art History

Focus on Questioning Norms in the Field on Display in New Book, Journal Issue

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Joe Biden

Op/ed: Government Has Always Picked Winners and Losers

UMD Historian Argues Biden’s Moves to Grow the Welfare State Don’t Distort the Market, Just Make Government Aid Fairer

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Willie Graham ’80

This (Really) Old House

Alum Recreates America’s History, One Handmade Nail at a Time

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Baltimore dig

Baltimore Dig Preserves Past While Preparing for Future

UMD Researcher Partners With West Baltimore Nonprofit to Uncover Black History

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Rege-Jean Page and Phoebe Dynevor in Bridgerton

A ‘Bridgerton’ Too Far?

UMD Expert Spills the Very British Tea on the Netflix Series

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Religious books

New Major Explores Roots of Western Religions

‘Religions and Cultures of the Ancient Middle East’ Pulls From Jewish Studies, History and Classics

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Enslaved.org illustration

Reconstructing Fragmented Lives

UMD Researcher Co-Leads New Digital Collection Piecing Together Histories of Enslaved Peoples

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Collage from past elections

From ‘Hamilton’ to ‘Unlawful’ Voting

5 Moments That Changed Presidential Election History

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