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Monumental Juxtapositions
Places Journal
Since 2015, more than one hundred communities across the American South have removed, relocated, or modified Confederate monuments. In many cases, their symbolic — and material — imprints remain.
Up-to-Date in Kansas City
Places Journal
The little-known architectural history of the Liberty Memorial (officially, the nation’s World War I Museum) reveals a path not taken for American modernism.
Seeing Sacagawea
Places Journal
Her name and likeness have served the mythology of American manifest destiny. What do we know of the emotional and intellectual presence of Sacagawea on the Lewis and Clark Trail?
The Middle of Everywhere
Places Journal
In the Flint Hills of Kansas there are cattle ranches and art galleries, old barns and new architecture, ghost towns and growing cities. And there is the last stand of tallgrass prairie in America.
Pandemicene Blues
Places Journal
The loss of biodiversity, the greed of the animal agriculture industry, the current assault on our public health infrastructure — all are making the next pandemic likelier than ever.
Chicago Inside Out
Places Journal
Forget the flashiness of city politics. Cook County has quietly become one of the best places in the nation for thinking creatively about the role of government in people’s lives.