We don’t look at most of the monuments and memorials around us. They disappear from view. Think o...

While reporting on citizens fighting natural gas pipelines and transmission lines planned to cut ...

A book on the multiplicity and universality of longing, and how this manifests in America.

When Howard Mansfield grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of his...

'A shed is the shortest line between need and shelter,' writes Howard Mansfield. Drawing on mater...

In the Memory House recalls what American society has forgotten--the land, its people, and its id...

An insightful but droll glimpse inside the life of one New England town

The mystery that attracts Howard Mansfield's attention is that some houses have life-are home, ar...

Before Thomas Edison, light and fire were thought to be one and the same. Turns out, they were se...

Mansfield explores the loss of cultural memory, asking: What is the past? How can the past be con...