Place

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

From highways carved through thriving ‘ghettoes’ to walls segregating areas by race, city development has a divisive history.

Kinston, NC has faced immense adversity, yet it has become the NBA capital of the world.

For hundreds of years, Florida has had the reputation of being a little unstable.

How Stone Mountain could become a battlefield where neo-Confederates from across the country make their last stand.

The celebration is steeped in a history of racial politics no number of floats could easily erase.

America loves a good scoundrel. We should remember this one.

Understanding the immense reach and cultural implications of Latin American music.

Engineering put the Crescent City below sea level. Now, its future is at risk.

A rebellion against French colonial rule in 1791 led to a new kind of society.

Author Jesmyn Ward on the racism “built into the bones” of the state where she grew up and is choosing to raise her children.

A new campaign by historians seeks to bring recognition to the site where the 20th president was shot.

Arlington House’s transformations mirror our own.

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