Place

A photographer travels to the heart of Appalachia to spend time with the area's last surviving black former coal miners.

Oakland’s lopsided boom.

Across Virginia, the landscape of slavery is fading as some work to preserve what is left.

Dispatches From Flatville, Illinois.

A review of "City of Inmates" by Kelly Lytle Hernández.

A new book explodes conventional ideas about the Midwest as America’s “insulated core.”

In “The Heartland,” Kristin L. Hoganson says America’s Midwest has been more connected to global events than remembered.

How the territory became the frontline of the battle for abolition.

506 years ago, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León landed in what he christened "Florida."

As the Gold Rush brought more settlers to San Francisco, battles erupted over the egg yolks of a remote seabird colony.

The city’s campaign of whitewashing dates to the 1800s.

"Everything, of course."

In 1966, a group of Boston-area parents and administrators created a busing program called METCO to help desegregate schools.

We all know the stereotypes. But what about the suburbs of utopians and renegades?

Interactive maps of public transit, then and now.

In the wake of devastating floods, one writer reflects on the importance of place to Great Plains Indians.

The ruins of a country store suggest that locals have neglected the memory of Emmett Till’s murder.

Excavations at a ranch in the southern High Plains show how generations of people adapted to an iconic Western landscape.

Photography as History in the U.S. South.

In its original concept, the Appalachian Trail was a wildly ambitious plan to reorganize the economic geography of the eastern United States.

After decades of silence, one man pursues accountability, apologies and the meaning of racial reconciliation.

What haunts the land? When two artists dig up the tangled history of slavery and soil exhaustion in Maryland, soil memory reveals ongoing racial violence.

Two new books recount the leading role women have played in Appalachian social justice movements.

White southern men who didn't own slaves often escaped to the swamps to avoid conscription and wait out the Civil War.

Placing Colorado’s early adoption of Prohibition in social and political context.

A century after the tragedies that shaped the nation's race relations.

"The difference between here and the South is just that — it's hidden."

In 1939, 20,000 American Nazis rallied in New York. It was billed as a "Pro-American" rally, but championed Hitler and fascism.

It’s time to reckon with the true history of the mythologized Texas landmark—and the racism and imperialism it represents.

Before California was West, it was North and it was East: an arrival point for both Mexican and Chinese immigrants.