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A picture of Boston being modernized through urban development, construction is happening on several buildings.

How Did American Cities Become So Unequal?

A new history of Ed Logue and his vision of urban renewal documents the broken promises of midcentury liberalism.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on October 19, 2020
A boat landing in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Where the Waters Meet the People: A Bibliography of the Twin Cities

St. Paul and Minneapolis have a history as long, deep, and twisted as the Mississippi River.
by Avigail Oren via The Metropole on October 7, 2020
abstract picture of buildings

City, Island

What does the way we mourn, remember, and care for our dead say about us?
by Alexandra Marvar via The Believer on October 1, 2020

Flu Fallout

A majority of the estimated 675,000 American deaths from the influenza pandemic of 1918–19 occurred during the second wave.
via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 22, 2020
A nose smelling.

What Smells Can Teach Us About History

How we perceive the senses changes in different historical, political, and cultural contexts. Sensory historians ask what people smelled, touched and tasted.
by Shayla Love via Vice on September 16, 2020
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Not Even Past: Social Vulnerability and the Legacy of Redlining

Juxtaposing contemporary public health data with 1930s redlining maps reveals one of the legacies of urban racial segregation.
by Ed Ayers, Robert K. Nelson, National Community Reinvestment Coalition via American Panorama on September 14, 2020
Image of street corner in the Bronx, New York

Boroughed Time

Confronting a long tradition of projecting fantasies onto the South Bronx.
by Sasha Frere-Jones via Bookforum on September 3, 2020
Christopher Columbus statue being removed from Grant Park in Chicago.
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Americans Put Up Statues During the Gilded Age. Today We’re Tearing Them Down.

Why the Gilded Age was the era of statues.
by Katrina Gulliver via Made By History on July 26, 2020

Tearing Down Black America

Policing is not the only kind of state violence. City governments have demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.
by Brent Cebul via Boston Review on July 22, 2020
An image of the J. E. B. Stuart statue on Richmond's Monument Avenue being removed, its pedestal covered in graffiti.

All Statues Are Local

The Great Toppling of 2020 and the rebirth of civic imagination.
by Siddhartha Mitter via The Intercept on July 19, 2020
Broadway New York 1893

Perilous Proceedings

Documenting the New York City construction boom at the turn of the 20th century.
by David Gibson via Library of Congress on June 29, 2020

The Racist History of Curfews in America

The restrictions imposed during recent racial justice protests have their roots in efforts to “contain” Black Americans. 
by Linda Poon via CityLab on June 18, 2020
Gordon Park's photograph of law enforcement officers kicking in a door

When Crime Photography Started to See Color

Six decades ago, Gordon Parks, Life magazine’s first black photographer, revolutionized what a crime photo could look like.
by Bill Shapiro via The Atlantic on June 16, 2020
Two posterboards covered in red handprints that read "Black Lives Matter" and "No Justice, No Peace."

Stop Comparing Today’s Protests to 1968

There are superficial similarities, but what we’re seeing now is something completely new.
by Thomas J. Sugrue via Washington Post on June 11, 2020
Armed military police in riot gear blocking demonstrators near the White House, June 3, 2020.

When Police Treat Protesters Like Insurgents, Sending in Troops Seems Logical

Militarized police forces laid the groundwork for using troops to quell protest.
by Stuart Schrader via Washington Post on June 4, 2020
A sign at a beach warning of sewage contaminated water.
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San Diego and Tijuana’s Shared Sewage Problem Has a Long History

U.S. imperialism and private enterprise in the region have created ecological peril.
by Kevan Q. Malone via Made By History on June 2, 2020
A photo of murder victim Etan Patz.

How the Disappearance of Etan Patz Changed the Face of New York City Forever

Stranger danger and the specter of childhood.
by Paul M. Renfro via CrimeReads on May 26, 2020
Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during coronavirus briefing
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Cities and States Need Aid — But Also Oversight

Federal funding during and after the New Deal ended up hurting cities because of who spent it and how.
by Brent Cebul, Daniel Wortel-London via Made By History on May 4, 2020

Street Privilege: New Histories of Parking and Urban Mobility

How the history of parking in America highlights its societal inequalities.
by James Longhurst via The Metropole on April 29, 2020
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Public Health Isn’t The Enemy of Economic Well-Being

As 19th century reformers showed, only a healthy workforce can fuel economic prosperity.
by Melanie A. Kiechle via Made By History on April 24, 2020

Racism After Redlining

In "Race for Profit," Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor walks us through the ways racist housing policy survived the abolition of redlining.
by N. D. B. Connolly via Black Perspectives on April 21, 2020
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Thomas Jefferson, Yellow Fever, and Land Planning for Public Health

Jefferson envisioned land-use policies that he hoped would mitigate epidemics – and other urban evils.
by M. Andrew Holowchak via HNN on April 19, 2020

A Once-In-A-Century Pandemic

We’re repeating a lot of the same mistakes from the 1918 “Spanish Flu” H1N1 outbreak.
by Sarah Mirk, Eleri Harris, Joyce Rice via The Nib on April 13, 2020
Women wearing masks during the 1918 Flu.
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To Save Lives, Social Distancing Must Continue Longer Than We Expect

The lessons of the 1918 flu pandemic.
by Howard Markel, J. Alexander Navarro via Made By History on April 8, 2020

In 19th-Century America, Fighting Disease Meant Battling Bad Smells

The history of unpleasant odor, or miasma, has unexpected relevance in the time of COVID-19.
by Melanie A. Kiechle, Daniela Blei via Atlas Obscura on April 8, 2020

Your Favorite Park Is Probably Built on Dead Bodies

New York City is considering burying victims of Covid-19 in public parks, many of which were already built on top of burial grounds.
by Eleanor Cummins via Vice on April 6, 2020

America's Devastating First Plague and the Birth of Epidemiology

In the 1790s a plague struck the new American nation and killed thousands. Noah Webster told the story of pandemics and invented a field.
by Joshua Kendall via TIME on April 4, 2020

How Some Cities ‘Flattened the Curve’ During the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Social distancing isn’t a new idea—it saved thousands of American lives during the last great pandemic.
by Nina Strochlic, Riley D. Champine via National Geographic on March 27, 2020
Donald Trump.
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President Trump’s Desire to Reopen Businesses Quickly Is Dangerous

History teaches us that prioritizing the economy could kill hundreds of thousands.
by Christopher McKnight Nichols via Made By History on March 25, 2020

Everything You Know About Mass Incarceration Is Wrong

The US carceral state is a monstrosity with few parallels in history. But most accounts fail to understand how it was created, and how we can dismantle it.
by Adaner Usmani, Jacobin via Jacobin on March 17, 2020
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