Stephen Paul Gale, the suspect identified through DNA in a decades-old double rape case, is back in Massachusetts.

On Nov. 10, 1898, more than 2,000 white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, ransacked a Black-owned newspaper, Black-owned banks and forced the city's local leaders, which included a mix ...

At 9:40pm on February 15, 1898, the battleship U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, killing 268 men and shocking the American populace. Of the two-thirds of the crew who perished, only 200 ...

The Museum of the Albemarle is hosting a free screening of American Coup: Wilmington 1898, a documentary that reveals the dark story of the only successful coup d’etat in U.S. history.

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