History comes alive with Kinfolk’s virtual monuments of unsung figures. View them in AR and learn about their unique stories.

What we love: Seeing AR monuments of figures like Ida B. Wells and Harry Belafonte right in our living room. Tap the monument to dive deeper; the app is loaded with articles, playlists, and primary-source documents—like the handwritten letters of Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.

Quick tip: Don’t miss the app’s insightful questions, which help you apply what you’ve learned to your own life. For example, in the section about the Pinkster festivals—a cultural celebration for African Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries—you’ll be asked to compare the festivities with your own holiday traditions.

Meet the creator: Kinfolk was created to “make Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Queer history empowering and interactive through imagination and play with community,” says founder Idris Brewster. The team works with artists and historians to build the app’s digital monuments.