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Betsy DeVos Wants to Resurrect an Old — and Failed — Model of Public Education

Government-funded schools evolved from a broader system of public education that couldn't provide what students needed.

by Adam Laats via Made By History on May 16, 2019

Inside the Long War to Protect Plastic

Single-use plastic is clogging oceans and landfills. The plastic industry has waged a decades-long campaign to keep it selling it.

by Tik Root via Center for Public Integrity on May 16, 2019

Why We Can — and Must — Create a Fairer System of Traffic Enforcement

The discretionary nature of traffic enforcement has left it ripe for abuse.

by Sarah A. Seo via Made By History on May 15, 2019

How the Bubonic Plague Almost Came to America

A Pompous Doctor, a Racist Bureaucracy, and More. From the book "Black Death at the Golden Gate".

by David K. Randall via Literary Hub on May 9, 2019

Introducing the Brand-New Historic District

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

by Jeremiah Budin via The New Yorker on May 9, 2019

‘Anyone Ever Seen Cocaine?’ What We Found in the Archives of Bernie Sanders’s TV Show.

What a forgotten trove of videotapes reveals about the man who rewrote America’s political script.

by Holly Otterbein via Politico Magazine on May 3, 2019

How Mandatory Vaccination Fueled the Anti-Vaxxer Movement

To better understand the controversy over New York’s measles outbreak, you have to go back to the late 19th century.

by Linda Poon via CityLab on April 24, 2019

Front page of the New York Daily News about Vivien Gordon's murder.

The 1930s Investigation That Took Down New York's Mayor—and Then Tammany Hall

When FDR found out how beholden New York politicians were to mobsters, he ordered the Seabury commission to investigate.

by Erin Blakemore via HISTORY on April 17, 2019

The Utter Inadequacy of America’s Efforts to Desegregate Schools

In 1966, a group of Boston-area parents and administrators created a busing program called METCO to help desegregate schools.

by Alana Semuels via The Atlantic on April 11, 2019

Historical Public Transit Systems vs. Their Modern Equivalents

Interactive maps of public transit, then and now.

by Jake Berman via The Guardian on April 3, 2019

When Socialism Was Tried in America—and Was a Smashing Success

For much of the 20th century, Milwaukee was run by socialists — and Time magazine called it “one of the best-run cities in the U.S.”

by John Nichols via The Nation on April 2, 2019

How a Series of Jail Rebellions Rocked New York—and Woke a City

It has been nearly 50 years since New York’s jails erupted in protest, but the lessons of that era feel more relevant than ever.

by Heather Ann Thompson via The Nation on March 21, 2019

Sanctuary and the City

Since the 1980s, activists in Philadelphia have argued that the city has always been a refuge for asylum seekers.

by Domenic Vitiello via The Metropole on March 6, 2019

The Surprising History of Americans Sharing Books

A visual exploration of how a critical piece of social infrastructure came to be.

by Ariel Aberg-Riger via CityLab on February 19, 2019

Model Metropolis

Behind one of the most iconic computer games of all time is a theory of how cities die—one that has proven dangerously influential.

by Kevin Baker via Logic on January 30, 2019

Lightning Struck

How an Atlanta neighborhood died on the altar of Super Bowl dreams.

by Max Blau via The Bitter Southerner on January 22, 2019

Children looking at an architectural model of a city.

Imagining a Past Future: Photographs from the Oakland Redevelopment Agency

City planner John B. Williams — and the photographic archive he commissioned — give us the opportunity to complicate received stories of failed urban renewal.

by Moriah Ulinskas via Places Journal on January 22, 2019

This, Too, Was History

The battle over police-torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.

by Peter C. Baker via The Point on January 14, 2019

Firefighters cutting a trench as a blaze approaches.

The Case for Letting Malibu Burn

Many of California’s native ecosystems evolved to burn. But modern fire suppression creates fuel for catastrophic fires. Is it time for a change?

by Mike Davis via Longreads on December 4, 2018

What the Popularity of 'Fortnite' Has in Common With the 20th Century Pinball Craze

Long before parents freaked over the ubiquitous video game, they flipped out over another newfangled fad.

by Clive Thompson via Smithsonian on November 29, 2018

Who Writes History? The Fight to Commemorate a Massacre by the Texas Rangers

When the descendants of a 1918 massacre applied for a historical marker, they learned that not everyone wants to remember one of Texas’ darkest days.

by Daniel Blue Tyx via Texas Observer on November 26, 2018

Massachusetts State House

Civil Rights Without the Supreme Court

Losing the support of the Supreme Court is disappointing, but it need not be the death knell of progress.

by Millington Bergeson-Lockwood via We're History on November 7, 2018

African American prison laborers.

A School District Wants to Relocate the Bodies of 95 Black Forced-Labor Prisoners

A school district owns the property where the bodies of 95 black convict-lease prisoners from Jim Crow era were buried.

by Meagan Flynn via Washington Post on October 25, 2018

Prisons for Sale, Histories Not Included

The intertwined history of mass incarceration and environmentalism in Upstate New York's prison-building boom.

by Clarence Jefferson Hall Jr. via Edge Effects on October 23, 2018

Ancestry.com Is In Cahoots With Public Records Agencies, A Group Suspects

A nonprofit claims its request for genealogical records from state archives was brushed aside in favor of Ancestry’s request.

by Katie Notopoulos via BuzzFeed News on October 22, 2018

Freedom Hill historic marker half underwater in a flood.

The Water Next Time?

For generations, a North Carolina town founded by former slaves has been disproportionately affected by environmental calamity.

by Danielle Purifoy via Scalawag on October 10, 2018

853 map of San Francisco by the U. S. Coast Survey

Demolishing the California Dream: How San Francisco Planned Its Own Housing Crisis

Today's housing crisis in San Francisco originates from zoning laws that segregated racial groups and income levels.

by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on September 21, 2018

Welcome to New York

Remembering Castle Garden, a nineteenth-century immigrant welfare state.

by Brendan P. O'Malley via Lapham’s Quarterly on September 12, 2018

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

In the Hate of Dixie

Cynthia Tucker returns to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama – also the hometown of Harper Lee, and the site of 17 lynchings.

by Cynthia Tucker via The Bitter Southerner on August 28, 2018

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