Once Columbus’s crown jewel for its urban architecture renaissance, Union Station was demolished to make room for a new convention center.
A judge ordered a last-minute halt of demolition, but not before nearly the entire site was demolished, except for one remaining arch. That arch now sites on Nationwide Boulevard in Columbus’s Arena District.
From ancient seas to fertile soils, evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell-Staton explores the remarkable journey that transformed the Cretaceous coastline into the fertile “Black Belt” region of the American South. He joins oceanographer Craig McClain, professor Sven Beckert, and geneticist Steven Micheletti to learn how millions of years of deposits shaped the events of Black American history.