landscape

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

Targeted even when unarmed, around 70 percent of the Black Union troops who fought in the 1864 battle died as a result of the clash.

Lynn Riggs wrote the play that served as the basis of the hit 1943 musical.

What can a visualization of population growth in cities and towns in the Northeast tell us about different moments in the region's economic geography?

Our own world is built from copper, and so too will future worlds be.

What the political fight over a photo teaches us about the power of art, grassroots activism and images.

When it comes to protecting our personal privacy, we’re not in Kansas anymore.

An exhibition exploring the connections between the environment and social justice, using maps and visual materials.

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

A necessarily abridged perspective of place in Hawai‘i.

A new book uncovers the story of New York’s pursuit of water, and the homes and communities destroyed in the process.

How the city's urban and suburban landscape shaped its alternating history of oppression and opportunity.

On “all wars” memorials.

A new logistics center in Revere tells a familiar story and poses the question: how inextricable is land use from the land itself?

Not just in Riverside, but in all of the Inland Empire!

The traditional wooden barn persists even as family farms have been almost entirely replaced by multinational agribusiness.

Our food system could have been so different.

A new book explores the final days of Ralph Waldo Emerson - traveling from Concord to California, and beyond.

Two centuries of New England intellectual history through the lives and ideas of people who are memorialized there.

One of the country’s oldest fire lookouts was destroyed last year in the largest wildfire in California’s history. What else is being lost?

Discovering the naturalist and artist, and the darker trends within.

The case for making the street more like the pleasure road Frederick Law Olmsted intended.

Oysters are working tirelessly for the benefit of New York Harbor after years of over-harvesting and sewage-induced turmoil.

Bikepacking historian Erick Cedeño retraces the Buffalo soldiers' legendary journey from Montana to Missouri to rethink it and its place in American history.

Philadelphia portrait studios in the Age of the Daguerreotype (1840-1849).

Wetlands absorb carbon dioxide and buffer the excesses of drought and flood, yet we’ve drained much of this land. Can we learn to love our swamps?

"The tallest trees at Roaring Run remember sending down taproots even as the furnace stones were still warm. Desecration is not ironclad."

Poplar—ubiquitous in timber, landscape design, and Indigenous medicines—holds new promise in recuperating damaged ecosystems.

A journey through the African American landscape.

A whistleblower says new construction on an old plantation would disrupt important historic sites, including possibly unmarked graves of enslaved people.