Place

Sean Carswell looks into James M. Cain and his time reporting on the West Virginia Mine Wars.

What is a small, historically-minded community meant to do with something like Western State Hospital?

The city sought to sell bonds to pay for the war effort, while bringing its citizens together during the infamous pandemic

Today's housing crisis in San Francisco originates from zoning laws that segregated racial groups and income levels.

The First World War prompted the politicization of nearly all aspects of American life.

Even Magic Kingdoms need urban planners.

Women fighting for the ballot saw German men as backward, ignorant, and less worthy of citizenship than themselves.

On the origins of the Lost Cause of the Lowcountry.

Remembering Castle Garden, a nineteenth-century immigrant welfare state.

Rapidly rising metropolitan land value can mean "striking gold" for some landowners while threatening the livelihood of others.

Sports, politics, and civic identity in modern Philadelphia.

In Charleston, a monument to John C. Calhoun squares off against its symbolic rival, the steeple of Emanuel A.M.E. Church, where a white supremacist killed nine.

History tells us that Trump's proposed wall will not work, and that it will do more damage than good.

In St. Augustine lie the ruins of Fort Mose, built in 1738 as the first free black settlement in what would become the United States.

More than anything else, the Watsonville Canning strike was a fight against national oppression.

A century later, “Quiet Adventure in Alaska” still sounds pretty good.

Cynthia Tucker returns to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama – also the hometown of Harper Lee, and the site of 17 lynchings.

History bleeds in Montgomery, Alabama.

More than 50 years after redlining was outlawed, the legacy of discrimination can still be seen in California’s poorest large city.

Of all the places to discover a lost city, this pleasing little community seems an unlikely candidate.

In Candyman, the notorious Cabrini-Green complex is haunted by urban myths and racial paranoia.

The bizarre origin story of the surprisingly exceptional Oklahoma City, in a government-sanctioned raid called the Land Run.

Connecting the dots between discriminatory housing policies in the 1930s and urban food insecurity today.

The region was at the epicenter of eugenic policy-making in the first half of the 20th century.

Is the unique dialect a vestige of Elizabethan England? Left over from Scots-Irish immigrants? Or something else altogether?

A listening tour in Mississippi asks flag supporters why they still support a symbol that represents pain, division and difficult history.

It has been a target of vandals ever since it was dedicated.

Sappony tobacco farmers across generations, and across state borders, when North Carolina and Virginia law diverged on tribal recognition, education, and segregation.

The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.

Getting to know the New York City street mayors of the turn of the century.