In 1961, Life magazine invited the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, and scholar Robert Penn Warren to ruminate on the upcoming centennial of the American Civil War. more...

A New Lens on the War Between the States—and Its Aftermath. more...

Modern architecture made a name for itself with groundbreaking transformations of the built environment, but by the late 1950s, the creative well seemed to be running dry. more...

Driving into the tidewater region of southern Maryland, there is not so much a sense of place as of vacancy—available space for nearbyWashington, DC, extra room for the metropolis to stretch its ever-expanding influence. more...

“Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion,” E.B.White famously claimed in his 1949 paean Here is New York. more...

The National Defense Reserve Fleet, anchored in Beaumont, Texas, is comprised mostly of mothballed merchant vessels kept in case of national emergency, such as a shipping crisis. more...