Hunter Oatman-Stanford

Letters come in each year with pilfered stones from the national park, hoping to break the senders' curse.

A look at early photography reveals the nuances of California's early development.

Today's housing crisis in San Francisco originates from zoning laws that segregated racial groups and income levels.

150 years after Yosemite opened to the public, the park's indigenous inhabitants are still struggling for recognition.

Jeffrey Conner has collected over 1,000 headbadges from old bicycles.

Barry R. Harwood says of George Hunzinger's work, “No one else was doing this. They didn’t have a name for it yet.”

In 1966, the queens had finally had enough with years of discriminatory treatment by the San Francisco police.

Suburban corporate campuses have isolated themselves by design from the communities their products were supposed to impact.

Throughout the long and pungent history of humanity, smelling healthy has been as delightful as it has disgusting.

"Fool the Axis—use Prophylaxis!"In many ways, such a coordinated public effort to alter sexual behavior was unprecedented.

None of these iconic photographs would exist without the brave photographers documenting the civil rights movement.

Black barbershops are a symbol of community, and they provide a window into our nation's complicated racial dynamics.

Nostalgia has always been harnessed or packaged to sell things.

What our mannequins say about us.

How garbage physically shaped the development of New York.

The needs and entrepreneurship of wounded soldiers have driven many of the most significant advances in prosthetic technology.

Alfredo Villanueva-Collado on his J.C. Leyendecker collection and the fascinating story behind this oft-neglected male image maker.

A brief history of camping.