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In 1903, a doctor bet $50 that he could cross America by car. The first coast-to-coast road trip in history took 63 days and cost $8,000.

The Klan dens of the heartland were powerful, vicious, and ambitious. Indiana was their bastion.

Staten Island gets a lot of disrespect from other New Yorkers, some of it fair. But it has its own fascinating people’s history.

Senator Pat McCarran’s vision for the desert carried a tradition of dispossession into the mid-20th century.

An unprepossessing townhouse in the East Village has been central to a series of distinctive events in New York City history.

Descendants of the west Africans who picked the cotton that made Manchester rich are struggling to keep their distinct culture alive.

The fight over nuclear waste on Yucca Mountain.

The fortunes of Coney Island have waxed and waned, but in the early twentieth century, its amusement parks became a major American export.

From the 1920s-1940s, North, West, and South Philadelphia saw its Black population increase by 50-80% as white flight occurred.

Domestic glass manufacturing in the U.S. remains concentrated in the Rust Belt. But studio glassblowing is adding relevance to a long forgotten material.

While documented revolts of enslaved persons in New Jersey aren’t abundant, some examples speak to the spirit of resistance among African people held captive.

For thousands of years, Indigenous societies were building hundred-foot pyramids along the Mississippi River.

The sudden push to rename a historic school that educated scores of Black students reeks of revenge.

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.

What can a visualization of population growth in cities and towns in the Northeast tell us about different moments in the region's economic geography?

How the movies gave Los Angeles a zoo.

Dispatches from a spine-tingling day of visits to the places where James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, and Thomas Cole created their most famous works.

A new history examines Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, the West Coast's settler ideology, and recent turbulence in the world of tech.

Jimmy Carter is known as a eradicator of disease and champion for world peace, but he also supported environmental efforts closer to home.

Greene probably has visions of suburban Atlanta in the 1990s and 2000s, not the Civil War.

Lacy M. Johnson walks through a nature center near Houston that has reclaimed the land where a neighborhood, sunken by oil extraction and floodwater, once stood.

How the moons of Mars and the death of a president altered the late nineteenth-century Washington, DC, landscape.

I thought having a rat czar would be an easy win for the city. I was wrong.

What does a statue dedicated to mothers reveal about women’s rights?

Why the first prizefight at Dodger's Stadium would become its last (outside of fiction).

The top educational priorities in the Sunshine State were apparently reading, writing, and anti-communism.

High up on the Colorado Plateau, in what is today the state of New Mexico, sit the remains of what was once a city of epic proportions.

A visit to the site of Joseph Smith’s divine revelation makes for a different kind of public history experience.

Was the nineteenth-century Midwest “the most advanced democratic society that the world had seen”?

A new book tells the definitive history of an Alabama community founded by survivors of the slave trade.