On July 1, 1922, the national Union of Railroad Shopmen called for a country-wide strike, and Denison's MKT labor was about to participate.

Little Ark once sat along Hickory Creek in Love County, Oklahoma (1902, USGS) I decided to nose around my favorite maps and find places...

The Coincoin-Prudhomme house along the Cane River in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana was documented by the Historic Buildings Survey in...

The Oklahoma Historical Society has an unbelievable amount of photographs that only occasionally see the light of day. Their photos,...

In 1937, George Conrad, a former Buffalo Soldier, was interviewed by the WPA's Federal Writer's Project.

Sometime in the 1990s, the federal program called Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the Coincoin- Prudhomme home along the Cane...

The Blevins Training School was a high school during the era of segregation in Hempstead County, Arkansas.

Tatums, Carter County, Oklahoma, experienced an oil boom as the home to the first African-American owned oil operation.

Alvin Reeves, a Great War soldier, is buried in the segregated portion of Gates Hill Cemetery in Bonham, Texas.

An oral history about Dr. Martin Luther King's visit to Shreveport in the 1950s.

The Farmers Improvement College near Ladonia, Fannin County, Texas was designed for agricultural and domestic training.

The Douglass Separate School in Roosevelt, Oklahoma.

The Red River Valley of the South still contains the remnants of segregation inside many of its cemeteries.

Most antebellum towns west of the Mississippi River did not survive the railroad boom and became ghosts.