Place

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.

How a California homebuilder remade the Interior West.

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

A conversation with Erika Marie Bsumek about one of the worst boondoggles in the Southwest.

In the 1970s and early ’80s, NYC’s racially and ethnically diverse working-class neighborhoods nurtured groundbreaking rap, salsa, and punk music.

My ancestors were the good whites, or at least that’s what I’ve always wanted to believe.

Steps from Georgetown, a memorial to Teddy Roosevelt stands amid ghosts of previous inhabitants: the Nacotchtank, colonist enslavers, and the emancipated.

Before Theodore Roosevelt Island was transformed, a prominent Virginia family relied on enslaved laborers to build and tend to its summer home.

How a mid-century architecture competition reimagined the American home.

A new documentary photography project grapples with manifestations of a problematic past resurfacing in present-day Alabama.

One man's role in shaping the nation's best-loved long-distance footpath reminds us of the close bonds that Jews have formed with the North American landscape.

There’s no one place to learn about the early decades of the 19th century. So I set off to see how that history is being remembered in the places where it happened.

Rewriting the history and future of an iconic suburb.

The boundary lines preceding Mason and Dixon, everybody knows, were a sham. What’s to follow will be no better.

Farmworker housing cooperatives in Ventura County, California.

In the 1950s the construction of a dam on the Texas–Mexico border displaced communities from their land—and anticipated the wall-building underway today.

A racist mob forced Opal Lee and her family from their Fort Worth home. Now she has been given the land and a new house is being built for her.

What happened to the Bailey family in the Detroit suburb of Warren became a flashpoint in the national battle over integration.

The 26th president once demanded that military personnel be able to walk 50 miles in 20 hours. I set off on an ill-fated mission to see if I could do it myself.

A sweeping new history examines many untold stories of the American West in the late nineteenth century.

The fight for a dignified space to carry out the most basic of human functions was popular when 19th-century Progressives took it on. It's time to take up that fight again.

For generations, depictions of Native Americans have reduced them to either aggressors or victims. But at many public history sites, that is starting to change.