As part of the great migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities, some 200,000 African Americans moved ...

Get your Indiana Jones-style fedora ready for a modern-day armchair expedition of places rediscovered after centuries—and ...

In the ensuing decades of [the twentieth] century and for several different generations of the American Left, Greenwich Village has had a continuing and storied importance. But for the celebrated ...

This story appears in the February 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Squirrels aren’t natural city slickers. In 1856 the sight of one in a tree near New York’s city hall so shocked ...

A city does not die when its last resident moves away. Death happens when municipalities lose the industries and vital populations that made them important cities. Click here to see the cities ...

To determine where African-Americans are faring the best economically, we evaluated America ... in the early 20th century, an estimated 6 million blacks headed north and west to cities such ...

Both began in the early part of the 20th century ... By the turn of the twentieth century American cities had become magnets for cheap labor. Poverty bred a new kind of hopelessness.

In a 2002 article, “Fear of the City: 1882-1967 ... of urban malaise in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature, art, and social theory.” Such a strain certainly ...

There was a growing sense of anger in Liverpool and other cities that men of minority backgrounds were taking jobs and homes from White people. In Liverpool, there were many gruesome attacks ...

By contrast, the warming from the 1910s to the 1940s, here termed early twentieth-century warming (ETCW ... bowl' droughts and heatwaves in North America in the 1930s. Time series of surface ...

Joshua Henry gives a powerhouse performance in a show set in the early 20th century about prejudice, resistance, pride, and ...

If Harris had prevailed last week, urban centers could have counted on an advocate in the White House – and political ...