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In the early twentieth century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia.

President Donald Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete understanding of the 25th president.

By threatening to reclaim the Panama Canal, Trump is evoking false stories about U.S. beneficence.

Trump’s canal comments resurrect a forgotten American interest.

Construction workers pooled their wages to erect the first one. Their bosses co-opted the gesture, transforming it into today’s consumer spectacle.

The Southern Baptist Convention’s oldest, most direct ties to the Holy Land were established by a Palestinian Arab.

The terrific new doc “San Juan Hill” chronicles the 1960s land grab that gave the Metropolitan Opera a home, while scattering longtime residents.

The push to build large police training facilities follows on a long history of armories as both symbols and manifestations of state power.

The white pines of New England may have done more than any leaf of tea to kick off the American Revolution.

Welcome to Colonial Williamsburg, the largest living museum that is taking a radical approach to our national divides.

As summers get hotter, public pools help people stay cool. Why are they so neglected?

An excess of restrictions has taken a very real toll on the lives of everyday Americans. Their stories must be told.

Generally speaking, emergencies tend to reduce productivity, at least in the short and medium terms.

Women on the homefront planned future homes with scrapbooks, blending wartime duty with dreams of postwar prosperity and modern comforts.

On the 50th anniversary of “Chinatown” and the beginning of the end of petromodernity.

No one really knows how interest rates work—not the experts who study them, the investors who track them, or the officials who set them.

The sport's greatest figures played ball in the Deep South amid the racism and bigotry that would later make Birmingham the center of the civil rights movement.

In the wake of the 1964 Harlem riots, June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller’s plan to redesign the neighborhood suggested new possibilities for urban life.

On the falsification of Lincoln Center’s history.

In 1924, sociologist and social reformer Caroline Bartlett Crane designed an award-winning tiny home in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Greenbelt was designed in 1935 as a community created, built, populated and even furnished entirely by the federal government. Now the FBI is set to move in.

The waterway opened up the heartland to trade, transforming small hamlets into industrial centers.

Gregory Ain wanted to create social housing in Los Angeles. Dogged by the FBI, his hope for more egalitarian architecture never came to be.

Development aid targeted for water as an economic and technical matter had environmental and financial consequences.

Laws meant to safeguard great buildings and neighborhoods can also present an obstacle to social progress.

Interactive map shows Milwaukee’s housing patterns reflect not only aesthetic trends but also how historical events like immigration, war and civil rights shaped the city.

In Oakland, California, when it comes to Black homelessness and dispossession, dystopia is already here.

Mark Massaro reviews Jason Vuic’s “The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream.”

But “Lunch atop a Skyscraper,” which was taken during the Great Depression, has come to represent the country's resilience, especially on Labor Day.

A company hopes its construction of a Historic District will satisfy those who are upset with its demolition of historic sites.