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The Value of Farmland: Rural Gentrification and the Movement to Stop Sprawl

Rapidly rising metropolitan land value can mean "striking gold" for some landowners while threatening the livelihood of others.

by Angela Hope Stiefbold via The Metropole on September 12, 2018

Socialism and the Liberal Imagination

How do socialist demands become liberal common sense? The history of the New Deal offers a useful lesson.

by Mason B. Williams via Dissent on August 8, 2018

New York City skyscrapers

Capital of the World

The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on August 2, 2018

The Growing Rift Between Workers and Environmentalists

Members of the working class were once among the environmental movement's best allies. That support has largely disappeared.

by Erik Loomis via Modern American History on July 27, 2018

The Visionary John Wesley Powell Had a Plan for Developing the West, But Nobody Listened

Powell’s foresight might have prevented the 1930s dust bowl and perhaps, today’s water scarcities.

by John F. Ross via Smithsonian on July 3, 2018

View of San Francisco from the Bay.

How Could 'The Most Successful Place on Earth' Get So Much Wrong?

A new book conjures the complexity of the Bay Area and the perils of its immense, uneven wealth.

by Richard Florida, Richard A. Walker via CityLab on July 3, 2018

Beachgoers speaking to a police officer.

Free the Beach

How seaside towns throughout the northeast limited the ability of ‘undesirables’ to access public beaches.

by Andrew W. Kahrl via Boston Review on May 21, 2018

The Factory That Oreos Built

A new owner for the New York City landmark offers a tasty opportunity to recap a crème-filled history.

by Katherine Martinelli via Smithsonian on May 21, 2018

From Progress to Poverty: America’s Long Gilded Age

The America that emerged out of the Civil War was meant to be a radically more equal place. What went wrong?

by Steven Hahn via The Nation on April 18, 2018

Men break ground on the first Public Works Administration project.

Infrastructure is Good for Business

During the Depression, business leaders knew that public works funding was key to economic growth. Why have we forgotten that lesson?

by Brent Cebul on March 12, 2018

Roads to Nowhere: How Infrastructure Built on American Inequality

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

by Johnny Miller via The Guardian on February 21, 2018

Even the Dead Could Not Stay

An illustrated history of urban renewal in Roanoke, Virginia.

by Martha Park via CityLab on January 19, 2018

Rexford Guy Tugwell and the Case for Big Urbanism

New York City’s first planning commissioner lost a bigger battle against Robert Moses than the fight Jane Jacobs won.

by Garrett Dash Nelson via Places Journal on January 1, 2018

Who Segregated America?

For all of its strengths, Richard Rothstein’s new book does not account for the central role capitalism played in segregating America's cities.

by Destin Jenkins via Public Books on December 21, 2017

Renewing Inequality

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

by Robert K. Nelson, Brent Cebul, Justin Madron, Nathaniel Ayers via American Panorama on December 13, 2017

Amazon or Independence Hall? Development vs. Preservation in the City of Philadelphia

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

by Whitney Martinko via Hindsights on December 11, 2017

Rosie the Riveters Discovered a Wartime California Dream

Following wartime opportunities west, seven million “Rosie the Riveters” found more than just jobs when they reached California.

by Samuel J. Redman via The Conversation on November 29, 2017

America’s Real Estate Developer in Chief

Donald Trump's rise to power was fueled by the profits of predatory real estate ventures.

by Thomas J. Sugrue via Public Books on November 27, 2017

Puerto Rico Syllabus

Essential tools for critical thinking about the Puerto Rican debt crisis.

by Marisol LeBrón, Yarimar Bonilla, Sarah Molinari via Puerto Rico Syllabus on September 27, 2017

How Puerto Rico Recovered Before

The island’s New Deal history offers an alternative to disaster capitalism.

by Kate Aronoff via In These Times on September 26, 2017

The Deeper Problem Behind the Sale of a Posh San Francisco Street

The news that a posh San Francisco street was sold for delinquent taxes exposes the deeper issue with America’s local revenue system.

by Brent Cebul via CityLab on August 18, 2017

How Profits From Opium Shaped 19th-Century Boston

In a city steeped in history, very few residents understand the powerful legacy of opium money.

by Martha Bebinger via WBUR on July 31, 2017

Toward an Environmental History of American Prisons

Like many facets of the American past, mass incarceration looks different if we consider it through the lens of environmental history.

by Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. via Process: A Blog for American History on June 22, 2017

Hands holding vials of chemicals.

The Empire’s Amnesia

When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.

by Greg Grandin, Jacobin via Jacobin on May 19, 2017

How Andrew Carnegie's Genius and Blue-Collar Grit Made Pittsburgh the Steel City

A third-generation mill worker pays homage to the controversial industrialist.

by Ken Kobus via Zócalo Public Square on April 7, 2017

Trump and the Mob

The budding mogul had a soft spot (but a short memory) for wiseguys.

by Tom Robbins via The Marshall Project on April 27, 2016

A postcard image of downtown Tonopah, Nevada ca. 1907.

Boomtimes Again: Twentieth-Century Mining in the Mojave Desert

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

by Kerry Dunne via Digital Public Library of America on April 7, 2016

Obama standing with his official presidential portrait.

There Goes the Neighborhood

The Obama library lands on Chicago.

by Rick Perlstein via The Baffler on July 1, 2015

Our Mis-Leading Indicators

How statistical data came to rule public policy.

by Stephen Macekura via Public Books on September 15, 2014

The Twin Insurgency

The postmodern state is under siege from plutocrats and criminals who unknowingly compound each other’s insidiousness.

by Nils Gilman via The American Interest on June 15, 2014

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