Place

“At the remove of time, it’s really hard to tell the difference between beat and beatsploitation.”

For a long time, European historians paid little attention to the extraordinary series of events that now goes by the name of the Haitian Revolution.

Edward Bellamy's utopia influenced a generation of urban planners.

African slaves had been in Florida 54 years before they arrived in Jamestown, Virginia. One historian says the 1619 narrative 'robs black history.'

A restless history of Washington Heights.

The story of America is precisely the heroic story of pioneers who bring the American ideal again and again to the West.

A review of the most detailed examination yet published of slavery at Mount Vernon.

How the patron saint of progressive urban planning’s ideas and ideals were implemented – and corrupted.

Climate disaster at Wounded Knee.

Border wall construction is encroaching on a site where people from many cultures have interacted for thousands of years.

How history forgot Felipe and Vivián Espinosa, two of the American West’s most brutal killers—and the complicated story behind their murderous rampage.

For nearly 200 years after the founding of New York, the city struggled to establish a clean source of fresh water.

An excerpt from a new book reveals how Disneyland came to be.

A personal account of how one young woman travels to South Carolina in search of her family history and freedom narrative.

How one monument came to be at the center of Minnesota’s imagined white past.

The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed.

In six weeks, 12,000 were dead of influenza.

After an African-American cemetery was bulldozed, families wondered what happened to the graves.

What is Texas? Should we even think about so large and diverse a place as having an essence that can be distilled?

America’s racialized topography means African-American historical sites are especially vulnerable to climate change.

A battle over local control in a city that was the face of integration shows the extent of the new segregation problem in the U.S.

Many people think of the White House as a symbol of democracy, but it also embodies America’s complicated past.

Twenty years ago my hometown made national headlines when the local college staged an internationally acclaimed play about gay men and the AIDS crisis.

The North Carolina Klan thought burning crosses would scare the Lumbee tribe out of Robeson County. That’s not how things went down.

Hundreds of ancient Native American sites along the Gulf Coast are at risk.

Ninety years ago, young African Americans in the South took up the Lindy Hop. It was an act of resistance and an assertion of freedom.

Lizabeth Cohen on the poverty and prosperity of the American city.

A brief history of theater fires in New York City—and the regulations that helped people escape them.

In America’s bloody history of racial violence, the little-known Elaine Massacre may rank as the deadliest.

Charlottesville and the UVA were enthusiastic participants in the national resurgence of public and celebratory white supremacy.