Place

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

The Confederacy often used brutal tactics against Union sympathizers, even in Southern towns.

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.

The 1927 disaster exposed a country divided by stereotypes, united by modernity.

A true story of the defining phrase of the Lone Star state.

Despite common belief, Washington, D.C. was not built on a swamp.

Whatever the Trump administration does with Environmental Protection Agency, its urban legacy is clear.

How a Boston rebellion became an American Revolution is a story too seldom told because it is one we take for granted.

Bicycle mania swept the nation at the end of the 19th century. Can it happen again?

During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today.

When a dam gave way after unprecedented rainfall, it sent a wall of water barreling toward a Pennsylvania town of 30,000 people.

Washington may be the only city on Earth that lobbied itself into existence.

Do you live on Native American territory?