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Residents seek higher ground on the roof of a home as floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover the streets on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 in New Orleans

How Hurricane Katrina Changed Disaster Preparedness

Hurricane Katrina exposed deep inequities in federal disaster response. "We never felt so cut off in all our lives."
by Yasmin Garaad via Scalawag on November 16, 2023
A police officer stands beside a crashed automobile, 1905. (Photo by Robert Alexander / Getty Images)

The Reckless History of the Automobile

In "The Car," Bryan Appleyard sets out to celebrate the freedom these vehicles granted. But what if they were a dangerous technology from the start?
by Paris Marx via The Nation on March 13, 2023
Drawing of woman crying over her murdered father.

A Gilded Age Tale of Murder and Madness

In opulent seaside Newport, a wealthy and beloved Black businessman turns up dead. The resulting trial will tear the town in two.
by Kay Adams, Nancy Markey via Narratively on November 17, 2022
Black and white photo of pedestrian and vehicle traffic in Los Angeles

When Cities Treated Cars as Dangerous Intruders

To many urban Americans in the 1920s, the car and its driver were tyrants that deprived others of their freedom.
by Peter Norton via The MIT Press Reader on July 25, 2022
Grid of black and white photos of various homes with different architectural styles.

Explore Milwaukee's History Through Its Many Home Styles

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.
by Daphne Chen, Erin Caughey, Yuriko Schumacher via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on April 1, 2022
A bus, and a Black man at the bus stop standing under a sign for a "Colored Waiting Room."

Homer Plessy Was Never a Criminal. Now His Record Reflects That.

In rejecting Plessy’s argument that the Jim Crow law implied Black people were inferior, the Supreme Court upheld the notion of “separate but equal.”
by Keisha N. Blain via MSNBC on January 5, 2022
Sepia tone photo of Hester Street, New York, crowded with people and vendors in 1902.

How Urban Density Can Make Our Neighbourhoods Better

Urban density was once seen as a sign of unhealthiness and poverty, but today it is necessary to make cities sustainable.
by Max Holleran via Aeon on December 9, 2021
Black man and Black woman riding bikes on a suburban street.
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American Cycling Has a Racism Problem

How racism has shaped the history — and present — of bicycle use.
by Nathan Cardon via Made By History on November 16, 2021
A male janitor is bent over and looking at a urinal in a public bathroom.

A Short History of the Public Restroom

How come it's so hard to go in sweet privacy when you're out and about?
by Peter C. Baldwin, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on November 5, 2021
A blurry pixilated image of Jimmy Carter on a television screen.

How the Ghost of Jimmy Carter’s Presidency Haunts Everything Biden Says About Supply Shortages

The last from-the-top critique of American overconsumption generated a massive backlash.
by Kevin Mattson via Slate on October 22, 2021

Privatizing the Public City

Oakland’s lopsided boom.
by Mitchell Schwarzer via Places Journal on May 1, 2019

Immaculately Restored Film Lets You Revisit Life in New York City in 1911

Other than one or two of the world's supercentenarians, nobody remembers New York in 1911.
by Colin Marshall via Open Culture on April 20, 2018
Rosa Parks' mugshot.

December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks Is Arrested

“This dramatic display of unity may well inspire the Negro residents of other Southern cities to similar action.”
via The Nation on December 24, 1955

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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