summer camp

The history of Camp Wo-Chi-Ca tells a largely overlooked story about left-wing politics and Black culture.

The annual rite of passage has always been more about the ambivalence of adults than the amusement of children.

Isolation and a heady mix of hormones and fear provide the perfect setting for bloody revenge.

Camps once sold a story about social improvement. Now we just can’t conceive of an unscheduled moment.

All coed camps can be like this. But Jewish ones were different.

A few weeks in the woods have taught kids to face new situations, make their way among strangers, solve their own problems—and live a more authentic life.

Native minstrelsy and the American summer camp movement.

‘The young Mexican American is tired of waiting for the Promised Land.’

How the Plattsburg camps tried (and failed) to raise a volunteer army ahead of World War I.

About 8,500 women attended the camps inspired by the CCC and organized by Eleanor Roosevelt—but the "She-She-She" program was mocked and eventually abandoned.

How a tragedy in New York City convinced Americans to learn how to swim.

Smith understood why so many white Americans, especially white Southerners, struggled to accept that their society was not so far removed from Hitler’s Germany.

Touring the palimpsests of cities.

During the Jim Crow era, working-class Washingtonians' recreation options were far more limited—and dangerous.

For decades, blind programmers have been creating the tools their community needs.