Place

For residents, organizers, and onlookers, neighborhoods can be a window for witnessing and making sense of history.

A new book revamps Newark's reputation as unsexy, violent, destitute, defiantly declaring it “a place of desire, love, eroticism, community, and resistance.”

The terrific new doc “San Juan Hill” chronicles the 1960s land grab that gave the Metropolitan Opera a home, while scattering longtime residents.

Each generation of this country’s workforce has always been urged to detest the next—to come up with its own fantasies of cat-eating immigrants.

The growth of Seattle in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is inseparable from the arrival of laborers from the US-colonized Philippines.

The night violent anti-government conspirators sowed chaos in the heart of Manhattan.

A scene of conflict that was lost to the ages has been unearthed, assembling an indigenous perspective on events at the very root of America’s founding.

Urban landscapes and communities all across the state of Virginia still bear the scars of urban renewal.

From ancient Native American trails to billion-year-old rocks, take an in-depth look at the thousands of years of history housed inside this iconic park.

In the late ’70s, a pro women’s hoops team briefly captivated the city by living up to its name. Then it all unraveled.

Max Gordon, Prohibition, and the transformative creation of the Village Vanguard.

The little known history of 19th-century New York City.

The forces that would shape my home state’s violent history were set in motion by a 480-year-old map made by a Spanish explorer.

The former president’s grotesque demagoguery is just the latest in a long line of vicious attacks on residents and immigrants from the island nation.

“Allotment”—and its repercussions.

Children’s stories set on the coast suggest a wilder way of life.

On the early history of New York City's northernmost borough.

In Winn Parish, an ancient salt dome has sustained life for centuries.

Welcome to Colonial Williamsburg, the largest living museum that is taking a radical approach to our national divides.

The backlash against an effort to resettle 200,000 evacuees holds lessons for future disasters.

On Hitler’s attempt to win Americans over to his cause.

Even as they've diversified, suburban politics have remained protectionist — often defying ideological categorization.

In the 1930s, disillusioned farmers and ranchers fought to carve a 49th state out of northern Wyoming, southeastern Montana and western South Dakota.

The author of "Cahokia Jazz" reflects on the similarities between historical fiction and science fiction, and the imaginative space opened by archival silences.

Drawn to communities of German socialist expatriates in the area, Marx once considered making his way to Texas.

At the fourth annual Hanford Journey, Yakama Nation youth, elders and scientists share stories about a land that is a part of them.

Most election maps emphasize the candidates and parties who won the Electoral College. This project shifts the focus to voters, revealing a more nuanced story.

I never knew I lived in an oil town until I went looking for the concealed infrastructure of fossil fuel production.

The cottages’ modest design provided entry-level homes after the Great Chicago Fire.

Caught between steel mills, suburbs and a hard place, the 15,000-acre site is a fantasia of biodiversity—and a case study for hard-fought conservation.