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Welder-trainee Josie Lucille Owens plies her trade on the SS George Washington Carver at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, CA, 1943.

Toxic Legacies of WWII: Pollution and Segregation

Wartime production led to environmental and social injustices, polluting land and bodies in ways that continue to shape public policy and race relations.
by Matthew Wills, Alistair W. Fortson via JSTOR Daily on November 27, 2022
Illustration of Harold drawing the moon, from "Harold and the Purple Crayon"

On "Harold of the Purple Crayon" and the Value of an Imaginative Journey

Considering the lessons and history of Crockett Johnson’s classic.
by Ross Ellenhorn via Literary Hub on November 8, 2022
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Redlining is Only Part of the Story

An annotated collection of resources from the Bunk archive that help explain the long history of housing discrimination.
by Julian Maxwell Hayter on October 5, 2022

Reston’s Roots: Black Activism in Virginia's New Town

In the 1960s, a man named Robert E. Simon Jr. dreamed of a city that would be open to all, regardless of race or income: Reston, VA.
by Charlotte Muth via Boundary Stones on March 31, 2022
American Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson (center) participating in a rally, January 15, 1975 (Wikipedia Commons)

Black Mayors, Black Politics, and the Gary Convention

The National Black Political Convention of 1972 saw many national giants on the Black political scene.
by Brandon Stokes via Black Perspectives on March 22, 2022
Cover of "Making Mexican Chicago", featuring a photo of a protest march.

"Making Mexican Chicago"

How the Windy City became a Latinx metropolis in the second half of the twentieth century.
by Mike Amezcua via The Chicago Blog on February 16, 2022
Aerial photograph of San Francisco, 1906.

How Private Capital Strangled Our Cities

By following the money, a new history of urban inequality turns our attention away from federal malfeasance and toward capital markets and financial instruments.
by Samuel Zipp via The Nation on January 4, 2022
Old-time black and white pictures of Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir with a modern city background

How American Environmentalism Failed

Traditional environmentalism has lacked a meaningful, practical democratic vision, rendering it largely marginal to the day-to-day lives of most Americans.
by William Shutkin via The MIT Press Reader on August 31, 2021
"Neighborhood of Fear" book cover

Abolishing the Suburbs

On Kyle Riismandel’s “Neighborhood of Fear: The Suburban Crisis in American Culture, 1975–2001.”
by David Helps via Los Angeles Review of Books on April 13, 2021
President Biden in a warehouse
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Government Has Always Picked Winners and Losers

A welfare state doesn't distort the market; it just makes government aid fairer.
by David M. P. Freund via Made By History on March 29, 2021

The Civil Rights Era was Supposed to Drastically Change America. It Didn’t.

From covid-19 to the 2020 election, the specter of America’s racist history influences many aspects of our lives.
by Stefan M. Bradley via Washington Post on December 23, 2020
Fire insurance map heading for East Detroit

Blight by Association: Why a White Working-Class Suburb Changed Its Name

The stretches one Detroit suburb made to justify a name change — the ‘burb’s supposedly colorblind arguments were anything but.
by Kenneth Alyass via The Metropole on October 1, 2020
A photo of a woman wearing a mask standing on a subway platform in Times Square.

Rethinking the Solution to New York’s Fiscal Crisis

We are at the end of an era, as choices made in the 1970s have created a society that seems unable to cope with a crisis such as that posed by the coronavirus.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via New York Review of Books on July 16, 2020
A protestor of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant.

The Grieving Landscape

Upon discovering that her mother had been a member of the group Women Strike For Peace (WSP), Heidi Hutner becomes obsessed with feminist nuclear history.
by Heidi Hutner via Longreads on June 30, 2020
Woman in the doorway of a kitchen.

Abolish Oil

The New Deal's legacies of infrastructure and economic development, and entrenching structural racism, reveal the potential and mistakes to avoid for the Green New Deal.
by Reinhold Martin via Places Journal on June 16, 2020
A sign that reads "We Want White Tenants in Our White Community." Two American flags are on top of the sign.

Highway Robbery

How Detroit cops and courts steer segregation and drive incarceration.
by Jade Chowning, Erin Keith, Geoff Leonard via ArcGIS StoryMaps on June 8, 2020
A photo of murder victim Etan Patz.

How the Disappearance of Etan Patz Changed the Face of New York City Forever

Stranger danger and the specter of childhood.
by Paul M. Renfro via CrimeReads on May 26, 2020
Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during coronavirus briefing
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Cities and States Need Aid — But Also Oversight

Federal funding during and after the New Deal ended up hurting cities because of who spent it and how.
by Brent Cebul, Daniel Wortel-London via Made By History on May 4, 2020

COVID-19 and the Color Line

Due to racist policies, Black Americans are dying of COVID-19 at much higher rates than whites, and nowhere more so than in St. Louis.
by Colin Gordon, Walter Johnson, Jamala Rogers, Jason Q. Purnell via Boston Review on April 30, 2020

When Robert Moses Wiped Out New York’s ‘Little Syria’

What happened to the former Main Street of Syrian America.
by Mattt Kapp via Literary Hub on February 28, 2020
A Black woman poses with the McDonald's golden arches.

How Fast Food "Became Black"

A new book, "Franchise," explains how black franchise owners became the backbone of the industry.
by Marcia Chatelain, Cynthia R. Greenlee via Vox on January 10, 2020

How New York’s Bagel Union Fought — and Beat — a Mafia Takeover

The mob saw an opportunity. Local 338 had other ideas.
by Jason Turbow via Grubstreet on January 8, 2020

The Midcentury Battle to Save America’s Cities from Crisis

Lizabeth Cohen on the poverty and prosperity of the American city.
by Lizabeth Cohen via Literary Hub on October 8, 2019
Cars in the rubble of a burned out building in New York in the 1970s.

Fiscal Fright in NYC

A review of Kim Phillips-Fein’s "Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics."
by Michael R. Glass via The Metropole on May 15, 2019

All Stick No Carrot: Racism, Property Tax Assessments, and Neoliberalism Post 1945 Chicago

Black homeowners have been an oft ignored actor in metropolitan history despite playing a central role.
via The Metropole on May 9, 2019

Segregated by Design

The forgotten history of how our governments unconstitutionally segregated this country.
by Richard Rothstein, Mark Lopez via Silkworm Studio on April 5, 2019

How Real Estate Segregated America

Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via Dissent on October 2, 2018

California Burning

Wildfires in the American West are becoming ever more prevalent and destructive. How did we get to this point?
by William Finnegan via New York Review of Books on July 28, 2018
Two people sitting in camping cabin.

How to Live ‘Amid the Silence of the Woods,' According to America’s First Camping Guide

The history of camping in the U.S. starts in the Adirondacks, with a guidebook that became an instant bestseller.
by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on July 23, 2018

The Lost World of the Middlebrow Tastemaker

Journalist Elizabeth Gordon had unsparing opinions about the inadequacy of both mainstream and elite notions of design.
by Anthony Paletta via The American Conservative on June 8, 2018
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