Place

The Arch in St. Louis stands as a monument to contradictory histories.

And it's all thanks to this mother-daughter dream team.

Unveiling the conflict and consequences in Kirkwood's expansion.

The expansion of higher education in Virginia uprooted hundreds of black families.

Tracing the currents of American history that run through the Great Lakes region.

Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college.

“It is true that my life has been threatened as the leader of this playground campaign,” wrote Mabel E. Macomber in 1929 from Brooklyn’s Bedford neighborhood.

Golden prairies of a Minnesota state park also hold the burial sites of Dakota people who died as the U.S. failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans.

Louis Armstrong’s complicated relationship with New Orleans.

Seeking rural solitude, urban Southern Californians ventured into the Mojave Desert, armed with pickaxes and dreams but facing harsh landscapes and red tape.

Visiting the sites of two 19th-century utopian experiments in the American Midwest.

The “syringe tides”—waves of used hypodermic needles, washing up on land—terrified beachgoers of the late 1980s. Their disturbing lesson was ignored.

In the early years of Brooklyn’s gentrification, a 1977 New Yorker piece by Jervis Anderson captured the process in a freeze-frame.

While most Jewish immigrants flocked to urban centers, a few -- like the Greenbergs -- tried their luck as homesteaders.

Tracing the transformation of the Great Plains to the widespread belief in “manifest destiny,” and weighing the power of words to shape landscapes.

For decades, locals believed landscape architect Jens Jensen designed this twisty stretch of Highway 42—the real history is even more serpentine.

All along the South Carolina coast, developers looking to profit on vacation getaways and new homes are targeting land owned by descendants of enslaved people.

Last month, descendants of copper miners and history enthusiasts alike gathered for the 117th annual Central Mine reunion service

On the trail of whales, Melville, and Douglass in New Bedford.

As long as the U.S. system privileges private property, thousands of acres of public lands will remain off limits.

Would the new owner of Richland Farm let a Black woman continue to visit to pay tribute to her enslaved ancestors?

The Index of Deep Disadvantage reflects a more holistic view of how we can define "poverty."

The tiny downtown passage, where artists burned pallets for warmth, was home to Ellsworth Kelly and Agnes Martin.

A compelling history of the fertile 1950s-’60s firmament surveys Lower Manhattan’s Coenties Slip.

Tourist interest is contributing to a more honest telling of the city’s role in the US slave trade. But tensions are flaring as South Carolina lawmakers restrict race-based teachings.

Reflections on Freedom House and citizen participation in Boston's urban renewal.

There is no acknowledgement in the film of the existence of downwinders from the test, in New Mexico or elsewhere.

As America has transformed, so too has its famous footpath. Less than half the A.T. remains where it was originally laid.

Rival entrepreneurs took drastic steps to draw visitors away from Mammoth Cave in the early 20th century.

“If the public pool isn’t available and open, you don’t swim.”