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West Virginians left Virginia to ensure that the people's voices were heard, not to benefit special interests at the expense of democracy.

The Great American Pyramid was supposed to give the Tennessee city an architectural landmark for the ages. Instead, it got a very large sporting goods store.

In southwest Florida, the Myakka River Valley — a place of mystery and myth — is under threat of development.

Designed as a bucolic working-class suburb of St. Louis, the nearly all-black town of Centreville now floods with raw sewage every time it rains.

A very real story of southern degradation and decay that made national headlines in the fall of 1932.

An interactive data report presents the impact of structural racism on Philadelphia, mapping 2019’s homicides and present day disadvantage with 1930s redlining maps.

San Bernardino, California's early success rested on a pair of seemingly incongruous forces: Mormonism and slavery.

Gangs and mafiosos have a long history with food crime.

In Knoxville, Tennessee, folks love sandwiches from a Fresh-O-Matic steamer like they love their grandmas.

David Zucchino on the white supremacist plot to take over Wilmington, North Carolina.

The mob saw an opportunity. Local 338 had other ideas.

California entered the Union as a free state, but there are hidden stories of slavery to be told.

A kinetic slice of Americana so pure you can almost smell Kerouac’s invoked apple pie – or maybe it’s the faint stench of exhaust fumes.

Finding struggle and resilience on a road trip through the birthplace of the blues.

“At the remove of time, it’s really hard to tell the difference between beat and beatsploitation.”

For a long time, European historians paid little attention to the extraordinary series of events that now goes by the name of the Haitian Revolution.

In 2004, Disney sold the downtown of utopian Celebration, Florida, to a private equity firm. Residents say it took their money and let the city rot around them.

Edward Bellamy's utopia influenced a generation of urban planners.

African slaves had been in Florida 54 years before they arrived in Jamestown, Virginia. One historian says the 1619 narrative 'robs black history.'

A restless history of Washington Heights.

The story of America is precisely the heroic story of pioneers who bring the American ideal again and again to the West.

A review of the most detailed examination yet published of slavery at Mount Vernon.

How the patron saint of progressive urban planning’s ideas and ideals were implemented – and corrupted.

Climate disaster at Wounded Knee.

Border wall construction is encroaching on a site where people from many cultures have interacted for thousands of years.

How history forgot Felipe and Vivián Espinosa, two of the American West’s most brutal killers—and the complicated story behind their murderous rampage.

For nearly 200 years after the founding of New York, the city struggled to establish a clean source of fresh water.

An excerpt from a new book reveals how Disneyland came to be.

A personal account of how one young woman travels to South Carolina in search of her family history and freedom narrative.

How one monument came to be at the center of Minnesota’s imagined white past.