Place

Well off Savannah's tourist trail, there's a replica of an antebellum plantation home in the middle of a public housing project.

How can adjacent neighborhoods in the same city be so drastically unequal?

An illustrated history of urban renewal in Roanoke, Virginia.

By blending education and activism, Zonia Baber made geography a means of uniting—not conquering—the globe.

In 1830, Boston had just concluded a radical experiment — a high school for girls.

The struggle over Shreveport's Confederate monument converges with talk about a national anthem protest by high-schoolers.

The western frontiers of national wellness culture.

The laundry: a place to play, grow up, and live out memories both bitter and sweet.

In his final days, King stood by striking sanitation workers. We returned to the city to see what has changed—and what hasn’t.

A digital exhibit on the history and legacy of the canal.

The US-Mexico border wall is disrupting and destroying the lives of a united binational community.

An interactive set of maps documenting the more than 300,000 families displaced by urban renewal projects between 1955 and 1966.

The current level of fire danger is so high that the U.S. Forest Service has described them using the color purple, to signify “extreme.”

What was Alabama back then? And what is Alabama right now?

A history of Independence Hall offers an example of how old buildings and open spaces are not always ripe sites for development.

The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team confronts one of the city’s most vexing issues.

“Some people call me Hillbilly, Some people call me Mountain Man; Well, you can call me Appalachia, ’Cause Appalachia is what I am.” —Del McCoury

Decades after civil rights laws overruled policies that starved non-white neighborhoods of investment, deep disparities linger.

When a trillion locusts ate everything in sight.

How the state’s past spurred a racial reckoning.

The Trump administration is working to undo one of the guiding principles of U.S. conservation.

Haunting archival footage of Stone Mountain's creation.

Aaron Burr spoke of far-flung fortune, and then the Blennerhassetts’ West Virginia Eden went up in flames.

Two writers — one black, one white — journey to Selma, Alabama, in search of "Southern heritage." This is their dialogue. 

City developers, RAND Corps dropouts, Latino activists—and Lena Horne, taking direct action against racism in Beverley Hills.

"Hillbilly Elegy" has been used to explain the 2016 election, but its logic is rooted in a dangerous myth about race in Appalachia.

A vast, interactive collection of resources related to Princeton's involvement with the institution of slavery.

Who sets the time? After the first repeal of Daylight Saving Time in 1919, the question only became harder to answer.

An inside look at a forgotten Northeast epicenter of smallpox treatment.

The people Joseph Rodriguez saw through the windshield in the 1970s and 80s.