To learn more about Black Wilmington—and the forces that conspired to destroy it—watch American Coup: Wilmington 1898.

Once generally referred to as a “riot,” the events of 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina are now more widely understood to have been a massacre of its African American citizens, and the ...

That was the ugly scene in Wilmington at the end of the 19 th century, a buried chapter of our history uncovered in the documentary American Coup: Wilmington 1898, directed by Brad Lichtenstein ...

On October 17, 1898, Springfield accumulated the earliest snowfall on record. The Leader-Democrat started the paper by saying, “It’s all a mistake, this weather. It’s out of place and out of ...