Laura Bliss

Take any major American city and you’re likely to find a historically Black neighborhood demolished, or cut off from the rest of the city by a highway.

A new book argues that mail service played a critical role in the U.S. government’s westward expansion and occupation of Native lands.

2020 was full of efforts to archive photos and artifacts of the pandemic — an impulse born of a sense of witnessing history, and a desire to speak to the future.

Satellite images dating back to 1975 allow researchers to map how millions of cul-de-sacs and dead-ends have proliferated in street networks worldwide.

As the city reached for the sky, those down below had to scramble for daylight.

The second part in a series exploring little-seen contributions to cartography.

How the entire U.S. came to drink out of a vessel never meant for human lips.