Place

As Hurricane Irma prepares to strike, it’s worth remembering that Mother Nature never intended us to live here.

The debate over confederate iconography arrives in the closest thing the U.S. has to an official church.

The 12-year process of creating a "new normal" in Galveston.

A new project tallies the streets named after Confederate leaders alongside those named after civil rights personalities.

Then the factory closed and the union crumbled.

Racial injustice is not a regional sickness. It's a national cancer.

It has to be renamed, state by state.

The Georgia landmark is a testament to the enduring legacy of white supremacy

A desire to fish created an epic 1889 flood.

Ninety years ago in Washington, a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment resulted in horror for Filipinos.

When the Long Hot Summer came to Wisconsin, the reality of race relations was impossible to ignore.

In a city steeped in history, very few residents understand the powerful legacy of opium money.

What E.B. White, Mickey Spillane, Death Wish, hip-hop, and the “Summer of Hell” have in common.

Fossil Cycad National Monument held America's richest deposit of petrified cycadeoid plants, until it didn't.

Did Robert Moses ordered engineers to build the Southern State Parkway’s bridges extra-low, to prevent poor people in buses from them? The truth is complex.

Coal country still clings to the industry that was long its chief source of revenue and a way of life.

The women of Telegraph Avenue whose stories remain untold.

Racial violence destroyed an affluent African-American community, seen as a threat to white-dominated American capitalism.

For the waterway's 200th anniversary, learn about its creation and impact.

Ever wonder how a lifelong urbanite can resent cities as much as Donald Trump does? First you have to understand ’70s and ’80s New York.

A search for the source of Southern hip-hop’s magic will always lead you to three men from Atlanta, known to the world as Organized Noize.

The perfect correspondence of landscape and information can be seen in Ruth Taylor’s 1939 map.

The history of Atlanta's first Civil War monument may reveal how to deal with them in the present.

Frederick Douglas had another, lesser known, impact on Baltimore.

Maps from 1630 to the present show how the city — once an 800-acre peninsula — grew into what it is today.

Taking down Confederate monuments helps confront the past, not obscure it.

Historian Sara Yael Hirschhorn explains what has driven some American Jews to the most contentious real estate on earth.

The ecological history of West Texas challenges the narrative of the region's rugged independence.

What sparked one of the deadliest insurrections in American history?

The once-glamorous casinos and hotels have become a gilded ghost town.