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The university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.

1925 marked the peak of the Florida land boom. But false advertising and natural disasters thwarted many settlers’ visions of striking it rich.

New York would never be the Puritans' austere city on a hill, yet it became America’s vibrant heart of capitalism.

An interview with Steven Conn about his new book, “Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn’t.”

A movement for some Illinois counties to join Indiana threatens to resurrect an ominous practice from the 19th century.

Revisiting a 1925 march through the eyes of Black newspapers.

International trade boomed with the city’s early adoption of technological and economic changes, but Black neighborhoods became ‘sacrifice zones.’

How East New York was ransacked by the real estate industry and abandoned by the city in the process.

Staten Island's long battle against quarantine restrictions, from yellow fever to COVID-19.

For historian Russell Shorto, it was all about water.

After decades of unchecked hazardous waste pollution, a Florida hamlet fights the developers eager to build homes there anyway.

In the Tidewater region of Virginia, history is slipping beneath the waves. In the Anthropocene, a complicated past is vanishing.

That doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

The missing Black history of upstate New York challenges the delusion of New York as a land of freedom far removed from the American original sin of slavery.

In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of their Asian neighbors in Rock Springs, Wyoming. 140 years later, the story of the atrocity is still being unearthed.

Locals complain of losing out as wealthier ‘returnees’ from abroad secure prime real estate.

Bethlehem Steel was the birthplace of skyscrapers, bridges, and battleships. What happened after the plant's furnaces went cold?

The Ḱamíłpa Band of the Yakama Nation has wanted an end to commercial picking of a critical cultural resource for years.

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination.

Dude ranches have been a popular American vacation spot for more than one hundred years.

Estimates say that millions of dollars and tens of thousands of acres of land throughout New England were given to soldiers who scalped Native Americans.

A swamp with a busy road going right through the middle, Washington’s airport was called “a disgrace.”

The region has unique political traditions tailor-made for the momentum gathering behind economic populism in the Democratic Party.

And a walk downtown in search of her saloon, the Bucket of Blood.

How a lively market on Boston Harbor became part of many defining moments of the Colonial and Revolutionary eras.

The tale of how and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the U.S. 150 years ago is actually two tales and two intertwining histories.

The veterans of Kagnew Station saw the early growth of the surveillance state. Has the passage of time given them a new understanding of their work?

Baltimore's long history with its most polarizing pest.

In Black Southern life, guns have been a sign of readiness against constant threats.

Osgood Carleton and his forgotten 1795 map of Boston.