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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.

A horse and buggy outside a victorian style house along the coast of Mackinac Island with lush greenery around it (Credit: Mackinac Island Tourism Board)
Rediscovering America

The US island where cars are banned

By Stephen Starr

Iñaki Arrieta Baro holds a photo of a Basque arborglyph (Credit: Haley Harrison)
Rediscovering America

How Europe's oldest language ended up on US trees

By Haley Harrison
Main Street sign in Locke, California
Rediscovering America

The US town built by and for Chinese people

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

The first king to travel around the world

By Wendy Awai-Dakroub
(Credit: Ohio History Connection)
Rediscovering America

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

By Brandon Withrow
A white-coloured church with a green, domed steeple in Alaska (Credit: John Zada)
Rediscovering America

The US island that feels like Russia

By John Zada
A view of a brick-sided church with a white steeple from the ground (Credit: Barbara Noe Kennedy)
Rediscovering America

The illegal church at the heart of US history

By Barbara Noe Kennedy
The front of the National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico (Credit: National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico)
Rediscovering America

'Gulf of America'? Not so fast says this museum

By Larry Bleiberg
Minneapolis skyline (Credit: Getty Images)
Rediscovering America

The US city reclaiming its Native roots

By Alicia Erickson
Yosemite El Capitan and Half Dome
Rediscovering America

Yosemite's hidden Chinese American history

By Rachel Chang
Louisa Swain
Rediscovering America

The travelling grandma who forever changed the US

By Lina Zeldovich
Sign of Fort Mose that reads Walkway to Freedom
Rediscovering America

The US' surprising original Underground Railroad

By Lina Zeldovich
An African cleansing ceremony at Fort Monroe, VA
Rediscovering America

The unsung birthplace of Black American culture

By Patrice Worthy
Mural of Major Taylor
Rediscovering America

America's first Black global sports superstar

By Robert Isenberg
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
Miami Circle is a 2,700-year-old Indigenous site that has been called "America's Stonehenge" (Credit: AFP/Stringer/Getty Images)
Rediscovering America

The US city with a hidden past

By Carolina Drake

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