Place

Cataloguing basement fallout shelters in the summer of 1967.

A wetland restoration project is bringing hope to Maui residents who want to honor Lahaina’s history and return water to the town after last year’s fires.

A new book brings to life the war in the South.

Many LGBTQ+ veterans settled in the city as it was a common point of disembarkation and a place of gender nonconformity.

A touristy dive bar, an unfinished liberation movement, and now a visitor center for the National Park Service.

How the focus on Harlem obfuscated Black culture in the Midwest.

The story of how Harriet Tubman led 150 African American soldiers to rescue over 700 former slaves freed five months earlier by the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Scottish-born naturalist’s early years in the United States.

For a brief moment in history, Frances Thompson was Memphis’ biggest scandal. Her life paints a different picture of our civil rights legacy.

The sport's greatest figures played ball in the Deep South amid the racism and bigotry that would later make Birmingham the center of the civil rights movement.

On the meaning and use of rivers and other waterways.

In the wake of the 1964 Harlem riots, June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller’s plan to redesign the neighborhood suggested new possibilities for urban life.

The 1993 “Hold the Line” experiment.

On the construction of America's new capital city.

The gunslingers, innovators, and explorers who carved their destinies from the sprawling promise of the West.

A look inside an enduring home for women 100 years after its doors first opened to residents.

On the town’s history & architecture.

With over 100 lawsuits dismissed, a last-ditch effort is underway to force the city to put into legal record what happened after that day.

An island eroding into the bay offers tantalizing clues about when and how humans first made their way into North America.

The new interactive tool accompanies a study of school enrollment data, which shows that segregation has worsened in recent decades.

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools.

A poignant connection between the erosions of landscape and memory at a former Japanese internment camp in California.

On the St. Louis theme park that never made it past the drawing board.

When I moved to Lower Manhattan in 1967, I decided to make a picture of every building in the neighbourhood before the city knocked it down.

A longtime resident of Shoe Lane chronicled the life of his community as it was demolished by Christopher Newport University. His photographs helped a reporter seek accountability.

Neighborhoods that once promised prosperity now offer crumbling infrastructure, aged housing stock, and social animus.

The long-polluted Anacostia bisects the District’s Potomac waterfront, segregating the majority-Black Southeast from the rest of the capital city.

On the falsification of Lincoln Center’s history.

The people of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, helped keep the Greenbrier resort's bunker—designed to hold the entirety of Congress—hidden for 30 years.

Between the 1920s and 1940s, wealthy young women signed up to run errands and carry messages for the Frontier Nursing Service.