Place

From Bronze Age farmers to New World colonialists, the stories of struggle to claim more ground have shaped where and how we live.

The ironies abound in the story of Reed, who made it possible to erect the statue that remains on the top of the Capitol dome today.

When the D.C. Metropolitan Police failed to catch a murder suspect, white residents criticized and mocked. Black residents worried.

Debunking the myth that the great national park was a wilderness untouched by humans

Gwenyth Loose on the women who defied all expectations.

Georgia Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock is pastor of the church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached.

Nick Tilsen was arrested for protesting President Trump at Mount Rushmore. Now, his legal troubles are part of a legacy.

The maps embrace everyone —free and enslaved, from the first national census of the late 18th century to the sophisticated surveys of the early 21st century.

As large spaces where different sectors of the city converge, stadiums are sites of social and political struggle.

In Colonial Williamsburg, a neglected Christian past is being restored.

Connecting present-day environmental inequalities to redlining policies of the 1930s.

With chatter about Texas leaving the union on the rise, two new books remind us what it was like the last time we tried to go it alone.

Peeples helps us to see that Poe’s imagination was stoked by his external surroundings as well as by his interior life.

Holt Cemetery has been filled to capacity many times over; each gravesite has been used for dozens of burials.

Dying of dysentery was just the beginning.

When we think of early New England, we picture stern-faced Puritans. But in the same decade that they arrived, Morton founded a very different kind of colony.

Elements of the Puritans’ unique worldview were handed down for generations and were carried westward by their descendants, the people we call Yankees.

Explore maps of 142 cities to see the lingering harms of the racist lending policies known as redlining.

How Mexico—and the fugitives who went there—helped make freedom possible in America.

The suburbs of Atlanta, where I grew up in an era still scarred by segregation, have transformed in ways that helped deliver Joe Biden the presidency.

Jane Dailey considers the power of the law to reinforce racism.

Once a symbol of desegregation, Ruby Bridges’ school now reflects another battle engulfing public education.

Activists concerned about pandemic-related homelessness are seeking rent relief. In the 1930s, tenants banded together against evictions.

William Eggleston’s photographs of the South on the eve of the 1976 election captured an eerie quiet.

In the small town of Ocoee, Fla., a racist mob went on a rampage after a Black man tried to cast his ballot on Nov. 2, 1920.

The ideals of the Confederate South found new force in the bloody plains of the American West.

Uncovering the truth about the 1898 massacre of black voters in Wilmington, North Carolina.

The only coup in American history came after scare-mongering that wouldn't sound out of place in 2020.

Covid-19 and climate change are drastically intensifying insecurity in New Orleans.

In the 1950s, residents of Mosinee, Wisconsin, staged a coup to warn of the red menace. The lessons of that historical footnote have never been more relevant.