Place

World War I saw the advent of chemical weaponry, and a mysterious chapter in the history of American University in Northwest DC.

On the evening of 16 December 1835, a fire broke out near Wall Street. It swept away 674 buildings and though devastation seemed absolute, citizens quickly rebuilt.

Freedman's Village, created in Arlington, VA at the end of the Civil War, became a thriving community of Black residents as part of Reconstruction.

Unearthing the Black history in America’s national parks.

From Seneca Village to “urban renewal,” the government has claimed Black property—rarely with the “just compensation” promised by the Fifth Amendment.

Exclusion and violence in Western U.S. states help explain the Whiteness of winter sports.

Marie Bankhead Owen led campaigns to purge anti-Confederate lessons from Southern classrooms, and all but erased Black history from the Alabama state archives.

How the Windy City became a Latinx metropolis in the second half of the twentieth century.

The 1954 US nuclear tests absolutely devastated the small island nation, but the US has steadfastly refused to make real amends for it.

On the relationships formed and marriages made by the fur trade.

Japanese Americans enter the frame of everyday Midwestern lives.

As cholera swept through New York, people tried their best to survive.

The first black settlers in the U.S. West.

We looked at 138 formerly redlined cities and found most were still segregated — just like they were designed to be.

African American church graveyards are disappearing. Can they be saved before it’s too late?

The discovery of the remains of the Clotilda, 160 years after it sank, brings new life and interest to the settlement built by the original survivors.

The history of French settlement in "le pays des Illinois" is not well-known by Americans, and what is known is being revisited by historians.

The unauthorized removal of the monument took place during the racial justice protests of summer 2020.

In Maryland, a memorial for two lynching victims reveals how America is grappling with its history of racial terror.

A little-known federal body gives official approval to what appears on maps. Now it is caught in the middle of the country’s upheaval over racism and language.

When the river freezes, lives change.

Environment, British occupation, and The winter of 1779-1780.

A new book explores California’s history through the experience of its Native peoples.

How can historic data about segregation, redlining, and real estate be more accessible? In this interview, we dive into a new data set derived from HOLC maps.

James Blue’s film investigated the destruction of a Black neighborhood in Houston, but it is also a powerful self-interrogation.

Year-by-year maps of homesteading claims and the dispossession of Native Americans.

New maps can revive Cherokee place names in Southern Appalachia and restore crucial knowledge amid an environmental catastrophe.

You can't tell the story of Midwestern cities like Toledo without being honest about their white supremacy problems.

Chinese laborers toiled alongside Black workers on 19th-century Louisiana plantations.

How more than a century of whitewashed history poisons Alabama today.