Editor's note: This story has been updated to include a statement from the John Locke Foundation. For decades, generations even, it was almost like Wilmington's 1898 coup and massacre never happened.

On Nov. 10, 1898, a mob descended on the offices of The Daily Record, a Black-owned newspaper in Wilmington, N.C. The armed men then moved into the streets and opened fire as Black men fled for their ...

WILMINGTON - More than 120 years after the 1898 Wilmington Massacre, the community is still grappling with and learning from the scars it left on the city. Awareness of the events that unfolded in the ...

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 elections ...

Speech by Alfred Moore Waddell: Men, the crisis is upon us. You must do your duty. This city, county, and state shall be rid of negro domination once and forever. You are the sons of noble ancestry.

A mob celebrates in front of the burned Love & Charity Hall which housed the black-owned and -edited newspaper, The Daily Record. Courtesy of New Hanover County Public Library. This is the story of ...

When the nascent naval power invaded Puerto Rico, three artists captured the moment, each explaining its significance in their own way Taína Caragol - Curator, National Portrait Gallery The summer of ...

In 1898, white supremacists orchestrated a coup in Wilmington, North Carolina, overthrowing a biracial government and massacring dozens of Black citizens. The coup, fueled by false narratives of Black ...

Before writing his new book, The War Lovers, Evan Thomas, the assistant managing editor of Newsweek magazine, spent three years researching an event a century removed from his day job: the 1898 ...

The 1898 Spanish-American War was fought over Spanish atrocities in Cuba. The American public had been hearing and reading about Spanish crimes in Cuba for years. The war over Cuba had unintended ...