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African Americans gather near a Confederate monument.

The Confederacy’s Long Shadow

Why did a predominantly black district have streets named after Southern generals? In Hollywood, Florida, one man thought it was time for change.
by Dierdre Mask via The Economist on April 2, 2020

Dream Come True

An excerpt from a new book reveals how Disneyland came to be.
by Richard Snow via Air Mail on November 23, 2019
Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia
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How the Rise of Urban Nonprofits Has Exacerbated Poverty

While "meds and eds" have powered urban economies, they haven't been the gateway out of poverty that many hoped.
by Claire Dunning via Made By History on September 24, 2019
Mill building on a bustling street in Cincinnatti in 1851.

The Forgotten Urbanists of 19th-Century Boomtowns

Why some journalists amassed reams of data and published thousands of pages to promote their home cities.
by Carl Abbott via CityLab on September 19, 2019
Row of suburban houses.

Welcome to the Radical Suburbs

We all know the stereotypes. But what about the suburbs of utopians and renegades?
by Amanda Kolson Hurley via CityLab on April 9, 2019

Capturing Black Bottom, a Detroit Neighborhood Lost to Urban Renewal

A new exhibit at the Detroit Public Library, displays old images of the historic African American neighborhood in its final days.
by Amy Crawford via CityLab on February 15, 2019
New York City skyscrapers

Capital of the World

The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on August 2, 2018
Farmers haying.

Remembering the ‘Spooky Wisdom’ of Our Agrarian Past

For millennia, humans have followed specific patterns passed down by their forbears without always knowing why.
by Gracy Olmstead via The American Conservative on April 23, 2018

How White Settlers Buried the Truth About the Midwest's Mysterious Mounds

Pioneers and early archeologists preferred to credit distant civilizations, not Native Americans, with building these cities.
by Sarah E. Baires via Zócalo Public Square on February 22, 2018

Boston. Racism. Image. Reality.

The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team confronts one of the city’s most vexing issues.
by Akilah Johnson via Boston Globe on December 10, 2017

America’s Real Estate Developer in Chief

Donald Trump's rise to power was fueled by the profits of predatory real estate ventures.
by Thomas J. Sugrue via Public Books on November 27, 2017

On Monuments and Public Lands

Any critical take on public monuments today must confront the reality that public lands are themselves colonized lands.
by Whitney Martinko via Hindsights on September 15, 2017
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How New York Became the Capital of the Jim Crow North

Racial injustice is not a regional sickness. It's a national cancer.
by Jeanne Theoharis, Brian Purnell via Made By History on August 23, 2017

The Deeper Problem Behind the Sale of a Posh San Francisco Street

The news that a posh San Francisco street was sold for delinquent taxes exposes the deeper issue with America’s local revenue system.
by Brent Cebul via CityLab on August 18, 2017

How Gotham Gave Us Trump

Ever wonder how a lifelong urbanite can resent cities as much as Donald Trump does? First you have to understand ’70s and ’80s New York.
by Michael Kruse via Politico Magazine on June 30, 2017

The Strange Ratio of Treasure Island

The perfect correspondence of landscape and information can be seen in Ruth Taylor’s 1939 map.
by Adam Tipps Weinstein via Territory on June 22, 2017

Frederick Douglass, Real Estate Developer

Frederick Douglas had another, lesser known, impact on Baltimore.
by Joshua Clark Davis via Black Perspectives on June 19, 2017
Street map of San Francisco marking the old shoreline and the locations of dozens of buried ships.

New Map Reveals Ships Buried Below San Francisco

Dozens of vessels that brought gold-crazed prospectors to the city in the 19th century still lie beneath the streets.
by Greg Miller via National Geographic on June 2, 2017

A Case for Reparations at the University of Chicago

What does the institution owe the descendants of slaves?
by Guy Emerson Mount, Caine Jordan, Kai Parker via Black Perspectives on May 22, 2017
Obama standing with his official presidential portrait.

There Goes the Neighborhood

The Obama library lands on Chicago.
by Rick Perlstein via The Baffler on July 1, 2015

Present Tense, Future Perfect: Protest and Progress at the 1964 World's Fair

The stall-in threatened to interrupt a certain imaginary of progress, democracy, and freedom with the reality of racial injustice.
by Erin Pineda via The Appendix on September 2, 2014
Harrison Gray Otis in superimposed over newspapers and palm trees.

Letter from Los Angeles

The history of the L.A. Times.
by Joan Didion via The New Yorker on February 18, 1990
A subterranean shot of the Lexington Avenue station, which made a loop around City Hall, in the early 1900s.

October 27, 1904: The New York City Subway System Opens

“The bearing of this upon social conditions can hardly be overestimated.”
by Richard Kreitner via The Nation on November 3, 1904

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