How the States Got Their Shapes

Texas is the largest state.

Rebels and outlaws shaping states.

States changed by urban expansion.

The future of the conquered American West.

Hidden features of the Midwest.

Religion through U.S. history.

The Hatfield and McCoy feud almost launched a war between two states.

Rural cultures clashed and shaped states.

How the U.S. is divided politically and what happens to the states caught in the middle.

The division of labor and how it shapes U.S. states and cities.

How Green Bay helped carve the border with Canada; what football has to do with fur; is North Carolina the real Golden State; why everyone should move to North Dakota.

Could Utah have been bigger than Texas?; how religion shattered New England into little shapes; the Civil War's origin in Kansas.

Behind blank spots like Area 51; what possessed the citizens of Key West to secede from Florida; old missile bunkers turned into dream homes; a county that was left off Georgia's quarter.