Place

A visit with artists and public historians in Chicago who are working to keep the memory of the city's "Red Summer" alive.

How the forgotten fight for the West exposes the meaning of the Confederate flag.

A report from the site of a former concentration camp.

Bostonians refused to be forced to house British soldiers. So the army paid rent to willing landlords, and soldiers’ families settled down all over town.

What happened to the former Main Street of Syrian America.

From Ansel Adams to Rebecca Norris Webb, we trace the symbiotic relationship that the parks and photography have developed over 150 years.

Don't let anyone tell you revolutionary history is boring.

In 1906, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Chicago to move forward with a spectacularly disgusting feat of modern engineering.

How barbed wire sparked a cowboy war and changed the American West.

The Astor Place Opera House Riot of 1849 combined two of 19th-century America’s favorite pastimes: going to the theater and rioting.

On the symptoms and spread of Newyorkitis.

Satellite images dating back to 1975 allow researchers to map how millions of cul-de-sacs and dead-ends have proliferated in street networks worldwide.

The reality of the early gold-rush prospectors was not nearly as benevolent as the mascot’s wide smile may suggest.

Three decades ago, California was the launchpad for a virulent strain of anti-immigrant politics that soon spread nationwide.

Remembering the Ohio State Penitentiary Hurricanes—and the day my father played against them in 1965.

The Seneca Nation and the building of the Kinzua Dam.

West Virginians left Virginia to ensure that the people's voices were heard, not to benefit special interests at the expense of democracy.

The Great American Pyramid was supposed to give the Tennessee city an architectural landmark for the ages. Instead, it got a very large sporting goods store.

In southwest Florida, the Myakka River Valley — a place of mystery and myth — is under threat of development.

Designed as a bucolic working-class suburb of St. Louis, the nearly all-black town of Centreville now floods with raw sewage every time it rains.

A very real story of southern degradation and decay that made national headlines in the fall of 1932.

An interactive data report presents the impact of structural racism on Philadelphia, mapping 2019’s homicides and present day disadvantage with 1930s redlining maps.

San Bernardino, California's early success rested on a pair of seemingly incongruous forces: Mormonism and slavery.

Gangs and mafiosos have a long history with food crime.

In Knoxville, Tennessee, folks love sandwiches from a Fresh-O-Matic steamer like they love their grandmas.

David Zucchino on the white supremacist plot to take over Wilmington, North Carolina.

The mob saw an opportunity. Local 338 had other ideas.

California entered the Union as a free state, but there are hidden stories of slavery to be told.

A kinetic slice of Americana so pure you can almost smell Kerouac’s invoked apple pie – or maybe it’s the faint stench of exhaust fumes.

Finding struggle and resilience on a road trip through the birthplace of the blues.