Place

What happened to the Bailey family in the Detroit suburb of Warren became a flashpoint in the national battle over integration.

The 26th president once demanded that military personnel be able to walk 50 miles in 20 hours. I set off on an ill-fated mission to see if I could do it myself.

The fight for a dignified space to carry out the most basic of human functions was popular when 19th-century Progressives took it on. It's time to take up that fight again.

For generations, depictions of Native Americans have reduced them to either aggressors or victims. But at many public history sites, that is starting to change.

A search for the memory of R.E.M. in Athens, Georgia.

How can one place represent the complexity of the Civil War’s beginnings?

Greenbelt was designed in 1935 as a community created, built, populated and even furnished entirely by the federal government. Now the FBI is set to move in.

Hurricane Katrina exposed deep inequities in federal disaster response. "We never felt so cut off in all our lives."

Originally built as barriers between fields and farms, the region’s abandoned farmstead walls have since become the binding threads of its cultural fabric.

What we remember when we remember the Alamo.

The history of garbage dumps is the history of America.

My dad grew up in Robert Moses’s New York City. His story is a testament to how urban planning shapes countless lives.

Almost by accident, we find ourselves at the epicenter of the Colorado Gold Rush, which attracted prospectors to the Rockies a decade after the famous bonanza of ‘49.

In a technological age, impassioned devotees renew an ancient maritime tradition.

Is the cost worth the payoff?

Tensions between Salem and Danvers were there from the start—contributing to the ensuing witch hysteria.

What do we do when there are whole cities full of ghosts, each one with their own unique story to tell, each one with something left undone?

Boston has more "made" land than any other American city.

After navigating a minor hiccup in our own provisioning process, we set out for the West on what would be our longest trip yet.

How decades-old decisions to build two California prisons in a dry lakebed and a chaotic climate left 8,000 incarcerated people at risk.

"It's the story of a family who had been denied justice about a piece of land they owned for at least 160 years."

From homesteaders to tourists to the U.S. Army, railroads flooded the Great Plains with people who saw bison as pests, amusements, or opportunities for profit.

Its inhabitants are as much creatures of state power and industrial capitalism as their city-dwelling counterparts.

The musical culture of the New York metropolitan area, combined with themes of suburban life, suffuse the legends' music.

Innovators are using digital tools to tell stories of the city’s Black and Latinx history.

The nineteenth-century establishment of mid-Atlantic coal mines and canals gave America its first taste of abundant fossil fuel energy.

More than 3,800 formerly enslaved people are buried in the military cemetery.

A new book links the rise of American prisons to the expansion of American power around the globe.

A small band of Modoc warriors held off hundreds of U.S. soldiers in California. Ultimately, the conflict left the Modoc leaders dead and the tribe divided.

Tracing the life of the author who seemed to be from both everywhere and nowhere.