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William Treadwell House, Hudson, Michigan. Source: Wikimedia Commons. At the beginning of 1864, William Treadwell seemed to have it...

Today no trains pull in and out of Michigan Central Depot. This represents a marked shift from earlier days, when railroads were the primary arteries connecting cities across the country, serving as the primary mode of cross-country and intracity transportation. Railroads, streetcars, and electric third rail transportation were once ubiquitous; now they are increasingly uncommon sights across the country, sometimes even regarded as mere curiosities where they still exist.

From June 3-8, 1943, Los Angeles erupted in five days of racial violence as white servicemen and civilians hunted down Mexican American youths wearing "zoot suits"—baggy, flashy outfits that had become symbols of cultural pride and defiance. What started as a dispute over clothing became a full-scale race riot that exposed the ugly reality of wartime America's treatment of its minority citizens.

Darby Style Handcuffs. Source: Wikimedia Commons. An Introduction to Holmesburg “ Dr. Albert M. Kligman  of the University of...

In 1932, thousands of World War I veterans marched on Washington demanding the bonuses they were promised, only to face violent eviction and broken promises.

On August 23, 1917, members of the all-Black 24th Infantry Regiment mutinied in Houston, Texas, in response to relentless racism and...

This post is a bit different in that rather than hyper focusing on an individual it breaks down an entire movement that isn’t talked...

Who was Emma Molloy? Journalist. Editor. Suffragette. Reformist. She did not play the role of the traditional woman in the background....

Bass Reeves was many things: a former enslaved person, a farmer, a railroad worker, a gunfighter, and one of the first Black deputy U.S....