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What U.S. Cities Looked Like Before the EPA

Whatever the Trump administration does with Environmental Protection Agency, its urban legacy is clear.

by Andrew Small via CityLab on March 2, 2017

Scientists attend to banks of monitors at NASA's Mission Control Center in Houston in 1965.

Mission Control: A History of the Urban Dashboard

Futuristic control rooms with endless screens of blinking data are proliferating in cities across the globe. Welcome to the age of Dashboard Governance.

by Shannon Mattern via Places Journal on March 1, 2015

Turn of the century campers eating melon outside their tent

Before Camping Got Wimpy: Roughing It With the Victorians

A brief history of camping.

by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on August 1, 2012

Police car.

The Orchestra

What are the origins of the mechanical siren?

by George Prochnik via Cabinet on March 1, 2011

Grid Lock in New York City.

Traffic Jam

Car culture is so pervasive that many people take it for granted. This exhibit shows how history can serve as our “blind spot detection,” enabling us to see new possibilities for the future.

American Pastoral

Reflections on the ahistorical, aristocratic, and romanticist approach to "nature" elevated by John Muir, and by his admirer, Ken Burns.

by Charles Petersen via n+1 on February 26, 2010

Henry Ford

Ford and the Führer

Ford Motor Company claims its Cologne plant was confiscated by Nazis, but newly discovered documents and correspondence prove otherwise.

by Ken Silverstein via The Nation on January 6, 2000

Title card for animated film "Destination Earth".

Destination Earth (1956)

A Cold War-era cartoon celebrates the wonders of oil and free-market capitalism, and the overthrow of the Stalin-like leader of Mars.

by John Sutherland via The Public Domain Review on June 1, 1956

A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire

This film is a rare record of San Francisco's downtown area before its destruction in the 1906 earthquake and fire.

by Miles Brothers via Library of Congress on April 14, 1906

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