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

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.

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

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 ...

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

“Great Fire of 1881” the marker read, followed by a 90-word summation of one of the deadliest — perhaps the deadliest — fire events in Michigan history. Snyder is a historian who knows a ...

One victim was remembered as “a man with a quick wit, a brilliant mind and a love for his family.” Another victim was known ...