Ancient

A Louisiana Plantation Record and the Truth Hidden Between the Lines In the late 1840s, life on Louisiana plantations was documented with a precision that […]

The Last Bid on Broughton Street The auction house on Broughton Street was rarely quiet. Even when voices lowered and boots stopped scraping, the room […]

Images and headlines about “mouth infestations” can spread rapidly on social media, often because they trigger an immediate emotional response. When health-related content is framed […]

In the summer of 1855, a plantation record book in rural Mississippi captured a brief line that read, in part: “Mary — prime field hand […]

The Palm Bay Women’s Correctional Facility didn’t look like the kind of place that would end up at the center of a national controversy. It […]

The KKK Wiped Out a Black Man’s Family — Then 100 Former Black Union Soldiers Surrounded Them In rural Mississippi, Ku Klux Klan riders burned […]

The Iron Box in the Wall In October 1896, crews demolishing a long-abandoned warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky uncovered something that wouldn’t be widely understood for […]

PART 1: Lot 402 On an October afternoon in 1851, beneath the broad domed rotunda of the St. Louis Hotel in New Orleans, a sale […]

On the morning of September 14th, 1862, in a small fishing village called Marble Head on the Massachusetts coast, two Black children sat facing a […]

The disappearance of Joshua Maddux began quietly, without warning, and for years it seemed to leave no trace at all. On the afternoon of May […]