Place

Mount Rushmore and storytelling at America’s national parks.

Coming to terms with free-state slavery through historic buildings and public history.

The Declaration of Independence condemns King George III. But the British were not to blame for one of the war’s most infamous conflagrations.

A teacher tells the story of 1974’s Olean, New York High School murders.

In the 1960s, amid the shipping industry's decline, the empty piers became a site for cruising and creativity for gay men in particular.

Texas might have been a place to start a conversation about widening the scope of civil liberties, but it has also been a place where those liberties end.

Ten years after the Charleston massacre, reverence for the Confederacy that Roof idolized is going strong.

Much of Mackinac Island was designated as a national park, but was too expensive for the government to maintain, so it was transferred to the State of Michigan.

How the “forever business” is changing at New York City’s biggest graveyard.

Material history, including at places such as Nottoway, has messages for people studying Black history.

Just because it's man-made doesn't mean it's not legitimate.

Texans left an enduring mark on the gunfighter era. The frontier was a darker place because of it.

California has long allowed an ambiguous boundary between public and private land along its coast. Climate change is testing the limits of this compromise.

At Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texans flex their go-it-alone style.

The university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.

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

New York would never be the Puritans' austere city on a hill, yet it became America’s vibrant heart of capitalism.

An interview with Steven Conn about his new book, “Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is—and Isn’t.”

A queer Southern history.

A movement for some Illinois counties to join Indiana threatens to resurrect an ominous practice from the 19th century.

Why was Boston and Massachusetts the site of so much early Revolutionary activity?

Revisiting a 1925 march through the eyes of Black newspapers.

International trade boomed with the city’s early adoption of technological and economic changes, but Black neighborhoods became ‘sacrifice zones.’

How East New York was ransacked by the real estate industry and abandoned by the city in the process.

Staten Island's long battle against quarantine restrictions, from yellow fever to COVID-19.

For historian Russell Shorto, it was all about water.

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

In the Tidewater region of Virginia, history is slipping beneath the waves. In the Anthropocene, a complicated past is vanishing.

That doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

The missing Black history of upstate New York challenges the delusion of New York as a land of freedom far removed from the American original sin of slavery.