Rediscovering America

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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)

The US island where cars are banned

By Stephen Starr

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The first king to travel around the world

By Wendy Awai-Dakroub

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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)

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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)

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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)

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

By Larry Bleiberg

Minneapolis skyline (Credit: Getty Images)

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The US city reclaiming its Native roots

By Alicia Erickson

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The US town built by and for Chinese people

By Pam & Gary Baker

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Yosemite's hidden Chinese American history

By Rachel Chang

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The travelling grandma who forever changed the US

By Lina Zeldovich

Sign of Fort Mose that reads Walkway to Freedom

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The US' surprising original Underground Railroad

By Lina Zeldovich

An African cleansing ceremony at Fort Monroe, VA

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The unsung birthplace of Black American culture

By Patrice Worthy

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)

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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)

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The US city with a hidden past

By Carolina Drake

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The small shops that run NYC

By Pierina Pighi Bel

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