land speculation

1925 marked the peak of the Florida land boom. But false advertising and natural disasters thwarted many settlers’ visions of striking it rich.

He held multiple allegiances during the Revolution, all of which were connected or stemmed from the importance he placed on familial self-preservation.

After decades of unchecked hazardous waste pollution, a Florida hamlet fights the developers eager to build homes there anyway.

American thinkers consider what the already occupied West could fund.

In Eatonville, one of the few Black towns to have survived incorporation, locals are fighting to preserve 100 acres of land from being sold to developers.

How Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, a star-studded cemetery in Los Angeles, corporatized mourning in America.

What role should the federal government play in building our infrastructure?

Without the now-obscure land investment affair, Georgia might have been a "super state."

“Modern Housing,” by Catherine Bauer, argued—as many activists do today—that a decent home should be seen as a public utility and a basic right.

For so many of the millions of tourists who come to Orlando, this—Disney, Universal Studios, I-Drive, all of it—stands in for America itself.

A shoreline expert writes about dredging vessels, Louisiana, neoliberalism, and her lifelong quest to save her hometown from the sea.

The revolution wasn’t only an effort to establish independence from the British—it was also a push to preserve slavery and suppress Native American resistance.

Martin Luther King Jr. recognized that Imperial expansion over stolen Indian land shaped and deepened the American Revolution’s relationship to slavery.

In 1903 Mine Westbye moved to North Dakota to live a life "so quiet you almost feel afraid."

Their great-grandfather had bought the land a hundred years earlier, when he was a generation removed from slavery.

A new history argues that the Second Amendment was intended to perpetuate white settlers' violence toward Native Americans.

“I am frightened by the proportions of my prosperity,” Twain said. “It seems to me that whatever I touch turns to gold.”

In its first century the American higher-education system was a messy, disorganised joke. How did it rise to world dominance?

As Hurricane Irma prepares to strike, it’s worth remembering that Mother Nature never intended us to live here.

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

Ulysses S. Grant was overlooked by historians and underestimated by contemporaries. H.W. Brands reevaluates Grant’s presidency.

A spotlight on a primary source.

Hurricane Helene has revived urgent questions about the politics of land — and tourism — in Appalachia.

American expansionism goes beyond territory.

The question should not be if settler colonialism factored into the history of the Civil War but how and to what extent.

Despite its failures and limitations, the American Revolution unleashed popular aspirations to throw off tyranny of all kinds.

The presence of Federalist judges frustrated Thomas Jefferson and his Democratic-Republican Party, bring justice Samuel Chase under fire.

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

In his new book, historian Nicholas Dagen Bloom chronicles the collapse of public transportation in US cities — and explains who really deserves the blame.

In the early 1900s heyday of the Socialist Party, Texas boasted a vibrant state party that attracted oppressed farmers in droves.