Think New York City has always been a glittering metropolis? Think again, with Stacker's look through city records and archives from 100 years ago that reveal a very different New York.

The Freedmen's Town area of Fourth Ward is known for its iconic brick-paved streets, the Gregory School -- now the African ...

A colony of African vervets in Dania Beach raises big questions about how humans can and should manage nonnative species.

Traveling north on Coulterville Road between the Coulterville Baptist Church and Swafford Road, you reach Nelson Cemetery ...

Although it's often described as the oldest profession in the world, firsthand accounts from sex workers in Mendocino are few and far between. Women often remained unidentified unless they were ...

Sarah Emma Edmonds, a Canadian immigrant in Michigan, disguised herself as “Frank Thompson” to serve in the Union Army’s 2nd ...

DNA analysis allows State Police to identify Clyde A. Coppage, 35, as the man whose body was found in 1970 in an Allegany ...

Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, leader, orator—and one of history’s most infamous assassins. Why did he launch a ...

From the A look at life in La Crosse from 1900-1987 series Members of a German writing class pose for a photo on June 27, ...

Carl Smith, June Carter's first husband and a country music star in his own right, was born March 15, 1927, in Maynardville, Tennessee.

It’s Alabama, 1963. A black woman stands before a judge, but she refuses to acknowledge his questions until he addresses her by the same honorific given to white women: “Miss.” That woman's name is ...

March is Women’s History Month and many local residents are probably not aware that Hernando County has more than its share of women who have accomplished much in our community, […] ...