The Peshtigo Fire remains the deadliest wildfire in U.S. history, claiming more than 1,500 lives. It occurred simultaneously ...

Chicago’s remarkable renewal after its own legendary disaster offers reassurance and lessons for how Los Angeles can recover.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. explores the personal and historic aspects of the mass movement of Black Southerners to the North known as the Great Migration.

That’s the name of a map-based website created by University of Idaho graduate students Michael Decker, Chris Lamb and Jack ...

Aside from the September 11 attacks and the Great Fire of 1910, the event was the deadliest for both firefighters and ...

As climate change increases the frequency and intensity of wildfires across the globe, we take a closer look at the 12 ...

For many people who lived through the Civil War, Saturday, April 14, 1865, was indelibly remembered for the assassination of ...

Reading and maintaining a human connection have a vital role to play as extreme events that have long served as the stuff of ...

A neighborhood where the deadly Eaton fire began was mostly spared from the devastation in surrounding Altadena, with the ...