How the murder of Timothy Coggins was finally solved.

The history of a sundown town.

A white friend admitted that she had never seen a single photo of a lynching. I was shocked, but not surprised. A lynching was a warning. She didn’t need to be warned.

The story of a lynching in rural CO in 1900, while hundreds watched, done with the complicity of press and cops, and why it still resonates today.

A new historical inquiry into the murder of Elwood Higginbotham offers a chance to confront the past.

Southern crimes and nightmares; an excerpt from Ward's latest novel.

An annual re-enactment drags America’s history of racist violence into the light.

Pvt. Felix Hall died in the only known murder of its kind on a U.S. military base.

On the 1915 hanging of Leo Frank in Marietta, Georgia.

Telephone poles began to appear around the same time that white Americans started lynching black Americans.

On the 1934 lynching of Claude Neal, and the Florida town that kept the identity of those responsible a secret.

“When I’m in Nigeria, I find myself looking at the passive, placid faces of the people standing at the bus stops. They are tired after a day’s work, and thinking perhaps of the long commute back home, or of what to make for dinner. I wonder to myself how these people, who surely love life, who surely love their own families, their own children, could be ready in an instant to exact a fatal violence on strangers.”

An exposé of extralegal killing.