Place

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.

One of the worst snowstorms recorded in Virginia’s history began on Sunday, January 17, 1857. It remained in Virginians' collective memories eighty years later.

Mark Twain would be hopelessly out of favor with both wings of the modern duopoly.

Early American salt makers exploited productive precedents established by generations of people who had engaged with salt resources for thousands of years.

Old-growth trees in Alaska's Tongass National Forest are embroiled in the politics of timber and climate change.

Held across the U.S. in the early 20th century, the events sought to raise awareness about workhorses' poor living conditions.

The new film is set in a now-bulldozed Black neighborhood, so why is it all about whites and Puerto Ricans? Because it really takes place in Los Angeles.

While New York has yet to break away from the rest of the country, it's not for lack of trying.

Preservationists like Jane Jacobs are urbanist heroes. But their rules can stifle.

Urban density was once seen as a sign of unhealthiness and poverty, but today it is necessary to make cities sustainable.

The Club Manhattan could hold about 250 people. They did not know it at the time, but they were the earliest witnesses to the rise of the Queen of Rock & Roll.

Sheryll Cashin’s “White Space, Black Hood” shows how economic discrimination combines with racial injustice in America’s housing policy.

Once derided as cesspools of Reagan-era consumerist excess, the shopping mall somehow became an unlikely sort-of quasi-public space that is now disappearing.