In THE FUTURE OF AMERICA’S PAST, historian Ed Ayers takes viewers to the sites of complex events in American history, where he meets people working to preserve the past, from park rangers to curators to community activists. In season two, Ed visits the sites of racial violence during Chicago’s “Red Summer” of 1919, and tours the museum that once was Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia, where a 1951 student-led protest catalyzed the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. In other episodes, Ed explores the human and environmental costs of the transcontinental railroad, and meets people in Boston and Philadelphia working to preserve overlooked perspectives from the Revolutionary War era.