hospitality industry

In the eighteenth century, if people in British North America had to travel, they stayed at public houses that were often just repurposed private homes.

Why his turn-of-the-century travelogue still resonates.

Dude ranches have been a popular American vacation spot for more than one hundred years.

And a walk downtown in search of her saloon, the Bucket of Blood.

On the town’s history & architecture.

The erased histories of the communities that built Seattle.

Is the cost worth the payoff?

The welfare rights movement of the 1960s and ’70s resisted invasive policies. Their animating vision: that society treat every mother and child with dignity.

Two elephants living at a Miami Beach resort blurred the boundaries between work and leisure in 1920s Florida.

For more than seven decades American roads were dotted with the familiar orange roof and blue cupola of the ubiquitous Howard Johnson’s restaurants and Motor Lodges.

How vacations went from being a purview of the rich to an expectation of a rising American middle class.

Much of Mackinac Island was designated as a national park, but was too expensive for the government to maintain, so it was transferred to the State of Michigan.

A look inside an enduring home for women 100 years after its doors first opened to residents.

The people of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, helped keep the Greenbrier resort's bunker—designed to hold the entirety of Congress—hidden for 30 years.

Where abolitionists and congressmen—including Lincoln—dined, debated, and became bedfellows.

An unearthed guest register from the Catskill Mountain House sheds light on the artists who spent the night there.

Separate areas with sofas, vanities, and even writing tables used to put the “rest” in women’s restrooms. Why were these spaces built, and why did they vanish?

A journalist seeks to capture the "spirit" of Oak Ridge.