Place

As the Gold Rush brought more settlers to San Francisco, battles erupted over the egg yolks of a remote seabird colony.

The city’s campaign of whitewashing dates to the 1800s.

"Everything, of course."

In 1966, a group of Boston-area parents and administrators created a busing program called METCO to help desegregate schools.

We all know the stereotypes. But what about the suburbs of utopians and renegades?

Loren Waldo's foolishness in the face of extreme weather remains a potent, symbolic warning.

Interactive maps of public transit, then and now.

In the wake of devastating floods, one writer reflects on the importance of place to Great Plains Indians.

The ruins of a country store suggest that locals have neglected the memory of Emmett Till’s murder.

Excavations at a ranch in the southern High Plains show how generations of people adapted to an iconic Western landscape.

Photography as History in the U.S. South.

In its original concept, the Appalachian Trail was a wildly ambitious plan to reorganize the economic geography of the eastern United States.

After decades of silence, one man pursues accountability, apologies and the meaning of racial reconciliation.

What haunts the land? When two artists dig up the tangled history of slavery and soil exhaustion in Maryland, soil memory reveals ongoing racial violence.

Two new books recount the leading role women have played in Appalachian social justice movements.

White southern men who didn't own slaves often escaped to the swamps to avoid conscription and wait out the Civil War.

Placing Colorado’s early adoption of Prohibition in social and political context.

A century after the tragedies that shaped the nation's race relations.

"The difference between here and the South is just that — it's hidden."

In 1939, 20,000 American Nazis rallied in New York. It was billed as a "Pro-American" rally, but championed Hitler and fascism.

It’s time to reckon with the true history of the mythologized Texas landmark—and the racism and imperialism it represents.

Before California was West, it was North and it was East: an arrival point for both Mexican and Chinese immigrants.

The living-history museum in Virginia re-creates 18th-century recipes in its restaurants using ingredients grown in the traditional way onsite. But some modern palates aren't too keen on the taste.

A new exhibit at the Detroit Public Library, displays old images of the historic African American neighborhood in its final days.

A look at early photography reveals the nuances of California's early development.

Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood was a prosperous center of Black wealth. Until a white mob wiped it out.

City planner John B. Williams — and the photographic archive he commissioned — give us the opportunity to complicate received stories of failed urban renewal.

How an Atlanta neighborhood died on the altar of Super Bowl dreams.

A forgotten example of the dangers of silica, the toxic dust behind the modern black lung epidemic in Appalachia.

Early 20th century National Park Service Rangers were a notoriously rough-and-tumble lot.