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

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 ...

Superx308 Jeffrey Jung via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1898, a pair of maneless male lions began terrorizing crews building the Kenya-Uganda Railway, killing and eating dozens of men ...

The mob burned down the offices of the Wilmington Daily Record A violent mob, whipped into a frenzy by politicians, tearing apart a town to overthrow the elected government. Following state ...