Place

In 1985, a 16-year-old dropout showed up to school with a shotgun. Everyone said it was just a fluke.

Irish tattoos in 1860s New York.

A new owner for the New York City landmark offers a tasty opportunity to recap a crème-filled history.

The chilling tale of a tragedy that was seemingly erased from the American consciousness.

Behind the whitewashed history of the Sunshine State.

When a "scofflaw carnival" occupied the L.A. aqueduct.

Sanitation reformers confront a neighborhood seemingly immune to state intervention.

The local indigenous population was most affected by environmental change resulting from mining in the Klondike.

Los Angeles and its river have long been enmeshed in an epic struggle for control.

The Montgomery Advertiser recognizes its own place in the history of racial violence in its own community.

Exploring the deep connections between redlining, gentrification, and exclusion in San Francisco.

Redlining tours explain how policies designed to keep minorities out of certain areas shaped the urban landscapes we see today.

Rodriguez has captured celebrities in repose and farmworkers on strike.

Other than one or two of the world's supercentenarians, nobody remembers New York in 1911.

While a far cry from full emancipation, it was an important step towards the abolition of slavery.

Nearly 80 years ago, a construction standstill derailed the subway into its present crisis.

How the National Civil Rights Museum has obscured the ongoing dispossession of African-Americans taking place in its shadow.

Outlining America's complex relationship and shared history with Puerto Rico and questions about sovereignty.

King's visits to Milwaukee highlighted the extent to which the civil rights struggle was a national one.

No other city has taken down a monument to a president for his misdeeds, but Arcata is poised to do just that with a statue of William McKinley.

Soviet ban? What Soviet ban?

The myth that Appalachia is uniformly White lingers, but communities of “Affrilachians” were documented in the 1930s.

An intimate portrait of a once-prosperous town in a forgotten corner of America.

Revisiting the arduous path of 18th-century fur trader Alexander Mackenzie.

A region that outsiders love to imagine but can’t seem to understand.

Longtime tenant in the 165-year-old St. Denis building in New York City reflects on the building's history.

On the teachers' strike in West Virginia.

An collection of audio and video recordings that document Americans' efforts to preserve historic structures.

In his travelogues, Woodson rhapsodized over what he saw as a love of democracy among hard-scrabble mountain settlers of both races.

Pioneers and early archeologists preferred to credit distant civilizations, not Native Americans, with building these cities.