Place

Once highly valuable, salt affords a new look at life, environment, and sovereignty in the southwest borderlands.

The music that grew out of Durham's tobacco manufacturing plants influenced some of the most widely recorded musicians of the last 65 years—and still does.

The post-9/11 landscape witnessed crackdowns on New York City nightlife amidst efforts to increase tourism.

“The sign has become a worldwide symbol of the Hollywood of the imagination, and it allows anyone who sees it to fill it with whatever meaning they want.”

How the Plattsburg camps tried (and failed) to raise a volunteer army ahead of World War I.

History shows that cities and towns have been poor stewards of what makes them special.

For decades, these Los Angeles streets have played host to key events in LGBTQ+ history. But gentrification has transformed the area.

A Black cemetery by the site of the former Greenlawn Cemetery in Indianapolis is now a point of contention as the city plans to develop the area.

Why did Chicago become the headquarters of free market fundamentalism? Adam Smith offers a clue.

For decades, gay men gathered anonymously at the Everard Baths, seeking sexual liaisons and camaraderie alike.

A new history cuts against stereotypes, to show a region constantly changing—and whose future is up for grabs.

Literary history is packed into Concord’s “Old Manse,” but the tiny abode of Walden’s author proves the highlight of our New England trip.

The rules were supposed to preserve my community. Instead they are slowly cutting people out of it.

Asian sailors came to the west coast of America in 1587. Within a century they were settled in colonies from Mexico to Peru.

Diners have always been considered a model of culinary democratization in the American public consciousness, but can they really be for everyone?

NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated 60 years ago. His wife, the activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, has fought for his civil rights legacy ever since.

During the Jim Crow era, working-class Washingtonians' recreation options were far more limited—and dangerous.

This is the story of how a visit by Frederick Douglass to south-central Massachusetts, epitomizes the movement’s ability to spread in the region.

Live entertainment, all genders and straight people are back—and were here in the beginning

The Fifth Amendment allows the government to buy private property for the public good. "Public good" being the expansion of white neighborhoods.

A location-based timeline and interactive map of the L.A. Zoot Suit Riots.

An effort to memorialize the homestead of one of Oregon’s first Black farmers illuminates the land’s complicated history.

The old Midwest was a place animated by the belief that a self-governing republic is the best regime for man.

What happened after the destruction of Greenwood, once home to some of the wealthiest African Americans in the US.

The heart of this book is the sharp and disjointed accounts of survivors, their experience not yet shorn of its surprise.

A visit to the old neighborhood.

Descendants of enslaved people want land seized by the state returned and recognition of the gold rush’s rich, and largely ignored, Black history.

Almost 175 years after the Gold Rush began, Californians are left holding the bag for thousands of abandoned mines.

Coming to terms with Boston’s racist legacy in “Small Mercies."

For decades, the military fired explosives on Vieques. The US citizens who live there still face the consequences.