Hickory Creek in Denton County, Texas may be named for Hickory, a much older settlement that history has forgotten.

Crutchfield Cemetery is an African American burial ground that is all but forgotten among a a construction boom in eastern Denton County.

The Scott-Barker House and St. Paul Baptist Church contribute to worries about preserving the past of fast-growing Melissa in Collin County.

Marion Post (later, Marion Post Wolcott) was the first photographer to document the Cane River Creole culture of Louisiana.

The life of Polly Ann Colbert, a Chickasaw Free Woman, is a history lesson of Indian Territory.

The courthouse once left an imposing impression on those plying their trades in old Hell's Half Acre, Fort Worth's red light district.

Established by freed African Americans in 1865, St. Paul Bottom bordered Twelve Mile Bayou in the northwest section of downtown Shreveport.

Most of the buildings that lie inside Fair Park in Dallas today are landmarks built purposefully for the 1936 Centennial Exposition.

The Simonds Precinct cemetery is known called to its families as "Sand Branch."

Much of the brick used in building Bonham (Fannin County, Texas) was fired in the kilns owned by Jerry Chinner, a Freeman.

Fort Sill represents the Old West and flourishes as the last remaining, active military post that was built during the Indian wars.

The Colfax Massacre along the Red River was the most violent episode in Reconstruction Louisiana.

The Red River Valley witnessed racialist violence, based on whites deflecting, throughout the first half of the 20th century.

The public lynching of Henry Smith in Paris, Texas in 1893 was detailed in a commemorative book by his murderers.

Records by the Freedmen's Bureau from the Red River Valley describe horrors.

Shreveport was prominently featured in Green Books

Annotated editorial from the Chicago Tribune to provide some context about slavery in the Choctaw Nation.

In 1887, O.L. Coleman opened a school for African American children in Gibsland, Louisiana.

Lafayette and Lost Prairie in Arkansas were built by slave labor and washed away by the Red River.

East of DeKalb, Bowie County, Texas and a few miles south of the Red River is the tiny community of Garland.