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For a brief moment in history, Frances Thompson was Memphis’ biggest scandal. Her life paints a different picture of our civil rights legacy.

The sport's greatest figures played ball in the Deep South amid the racism and bigotry that would later make Birmingham the center of the civil rights movement.

On the meaning and use of rivers and other waterways.

In the wake of the 1964 Harlem riots, June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller’s plan to redesign the neighborhood suggested new possibilities for urban life.

The 1993 “Hold the Line” experiment.

On the construction of America's new capital city.

The gunslingers, innovators, and explorers who carved their destinies from the sprawling promise of the West.

A look inside an enduring home for women 100 years after its doors first opened to residents.

On the town’s history & architecture.

How a Michigan vacation town transformed the sweet into a nationwide tourist attraction.

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.