Place

How the city's urban and suburban landscape shaped its alternating history of oppression and opportunity.

Race-based federal lending rules from New Deal programs kept Black families out of suburban neighborhoods, a policy that continues to slow economic mobility.

The original Los Angeles Chinatown, now known as “Old Chinatown,” developed in the 1860s.

One of the US's newest national parks has put West Virginia in the spotlight, but there's a deeper history to discover about its African American coal communities.

A new logistics center in Revere tells a familiar story and poses the question: how inextricable is land use from the land itself?

Just before a lynch mob was to face trial in Florida in 1926, a storm hit.

Not just in Riverside, but in all of the Inland Empire!

How new arrivals remade the east San Gabriel Valley — and assimilated in it.

A history tour at Harper’s Ferry suggests that “commemoration” and “desecration” might be two sides of the same coin.

The traditional wooden barn persists even as family farms have been almost entirely replaced by multinational agribusiness.

The city of Chicago was built upon the settler colonial dispossession of Indigenous peoples and lands. That history of this conflict continues into the present.

Explore the lives of people swept up in the great dramas of slavery, war, and emancipation in this updated version of the pioneering digital history project.

The common picture we get of the US South is one of resolute conservatism. But the region has a radical history, too.

The Black women and men who worked and slept in white homes are mostly invisible in the histories of suburbia.

The Embarcadero Freeway and the Berlin Wall exemplified how the politics of mobility reflected the arrangements of power in each society.

Support for Confederate symbols and monuments follows lines of race, religion, and education rather than geography.

Native people have lived in the Big Bend region of west Texas for thousands of years. Who should claim their remains?

Two recent books examine the idea of the Midwest as a haven for white supremacy and patriarchy.

How Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, a star-studded cemetery in Los Angeles, corporatized mourning in America.

Thomas Downing was a fine-dining pioneer with a secret.

Swampland communities established by self-liberated slaves in Louisiana offer a model to cope with climate disruption.

In Princeville, what’s at stake is not just one town’s survival but a unique window into American history.

Contrary to popular belief, the South has always been the key to defining the promise and limits of American democracy.

Mississippi's Black residents have long fought for access to clean water.

The Hat Riots of 1922 show how arbitrary, elite rules can spur civil unrest.

Two centuries of New England intellectual history through the lives and ideas of people who are memorialized there.

One of the country’s oldest fire lookouts was destroyed last year in the largest wildfire in California’s history. What else is being lost?

Uvalde's current protests against gun control mirror those of student protests in the early 1970s.

The story of a regional ruling class that struck a devil’s bargain with disease, going beyond negligence to cultivate semi-annual yellow fever epidemics.

Rhetoric and representation in the Southern Life History Project.