Place

With over 100 lawsuits dismissed, a last-ditch effort is underway to force the city to put into legal record what happened after that day.

Whose knowledge matters in a changing region?

An island eroding into the bay offers tantalizing clues about when and how humans first made their way into North America.

The new interactive tool accompanies a study of school enrollment data, which shows that segregation has worsened in recent decades.

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools.

It’s part of a project to rebuild Washington-on-the-Brazos, “the birthplace of Texas,” where the declaration that created the Republic of Texas was signed.

A poignant connection between the erosions of landscape and memory at a former Japanese internment camp in California.

On the St. Louis theme park that never made it past the drawing board.

When I moved to Lower Manhattan in 1967, I decided to make a picture of every building in the neighbourhood before the city knocked it down.

A longtime resident of Shoe Lane chronicled the life of his community as it was demolished by Christopher Newport University. His photographs helped a reporter seek accountability.

Neighborhoods that once promised prosperity now offer crumbling infrastructure, aged housing stock, and social animus.

The long-polluted Anacostia bisects the District’s Potomac waterfront, segregating the majority-Black Southeast from the rest of the capital city.

On the falsification of Lincoln Center’s history.

The people of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, helped keep the Greenbrier resort's bunker—designed to hold the entirety of Congress—hidden for 30 years.

Between the 1920s and 1940s, wealthy young women signed up to run errands and carry messages for the Frontier Nursing Service.

The rise of the sport as we know it was centered in Gotham, where big stadiums, heroic characters, and epic sportswriting produced a pastime that bound a city together.

The impact of the city's history with slavery.

The three forms of water distribution form a fluid archive of community formation, civic pride, and the many ways New Yorkers can choose the water they drink.

When Broadway was a broad way and Wall Street was a wall.

The erased histories of the communities that built Seattle.

In New Orleans, plans compete for how to deal with the harm done to minority communities by the Claiborne Expressway.

Valentine devoted his time to writing the Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York. These were annual compendiums of data about the city.

Space and place in New York City's responses to the French Revolution.

Days after a failed dam led to the drowning deaths of more than 2,200 people, the Pennsylvania industrial town was flooded again—with tourists.

In Chicago, preservationists have launched an unusual effort to explore the radical history of the 1960s civil rights group through the city’s built environment.

Loft life above the Fulton Fish Market and the day that everything changed.

Water insecurity, territorial expansion, and the making of a US-Mexico border city.

Mexicali’s "Colorado River Family Album" documents what is no more.

Richard Staff interviews four former Brooklyn Dodgers players, who, despite the team's move to Los Angeles, still identify with their Brooklyn roots.

San Diego's city-wide mission to promote sustainability, combat climate change, and reduce environmental health disparities.