Place

A company hopes its construction of a Historic District will satisfy those who are upset with its demolition of historic sites.

The original people of Los Angeles, the Tongva, defined their world as Tovaangar.

The American Legion was a forerunner to today's American nationalist organizations.

Natasha Trethewey on experiencing a past not our own.

Long before Reserve, Louisiana was home to a chemical plant and riddled with cancer, it suffered the deprivations of enslavement.

A photographer travels to the heart of Appalachia to spend time with the area's last surviving black former coal miners.

Oakland’s lopsided boom.

Across Virginia, the landscape of slavery is fading as some work to preserve what is left.

Dispatches From Flatville, Illinois.

A review of "City of Inmates" by Kelly Lytle Hernández.

In “The Heartland,” Kristin L. Hoganson says America’s Midwest has been more connected to global events than remembered.

How the territory became the frontline of the battle for abolition.

506 years ago, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León landed in what he christened "Florida."

As the Gold Rush brought more settlers to San Francisco, battles erupted over the egg yolks of a remote seabird colony.

The city’s campaign of whitewashing dates to the 1800s.

"Everything, of course."

In 1966, a group of Boston-area parents and administrators created a busing program called METCO to help desegregate schools.

We all know the stereotypes. But what about the suburbs of utopians and renegades?

Interactive maps of public transit, then and now.

In the wake of devastating floods, one writer reflects on the importance of place to Great Plains Indians.

The ruins of a country store suggest that locals have neglected the memory of Emmett Till’s murder.

Excavations at a ranch in the southern High Plains show how generations of people adapted to an iconic Western landscape.

Photography as History in the U.S. South.

In its original concept, the Appalachian Trail was a wildly ambitious plan to reorganize the economic geography of the eastern United States.

After decades of silence, one man pursues accountability, apologies and the meaning of racial reconciliation.

What haunts the land? When two artists dig up the tangled history of slavery and soil exhaustion in Maryland, soil memory reveals ongoing racial violence.

Two new books recount the leading role women have played in Appalachian social justice movements.

White southern men who didn't own slaves often escaped to the swamps to avoid conscription and wait out the Civil War.

Placing Colorado’s early adoption of Prohibition in social and political context.

A century after the tragedies that shaped the nation's race relations.