Erin Blakemore

The 1886 blizzard imperiled settlers and left fields of dead cattle in its wake.

How the Plattsburg camps tried (and failed) to raise a volunteer army ahead of World War I.

In 1871, the Wisconsin town Peshtigo burned to the ground, killing up to 2,500. But due to another event at the time, many have never heard about the disaster.

Fears that teachers were indoctrinating kids were rampant in the 1950s. But the reality was more complicated.

The swift, often comfortable ride on the Transcontinental Railroad opened up the American West to new settlement.

About 8,500 women attended the camps inspired by the CCC and organized by Eleanor Roosevelt—but the "She-She-She" program was mocked and eventually abandoned.

At a time when questions about women's rights in marriage roiled society, women readers took to the pages of cheap books about husband-murdering wives.

“Conventional wisdom tells us that the gold rush was a male undertaking,” writes the historian Glenda Riley. But women were there, too.

From rum to cakes to rowdy parades, election day was a time for gathering and celebration.

Over 136,000 GM workers participated in the strike in Flint, Michigan that became known as 'the strike heard round the world.'

In the 50s and 60s, steamy novels about lesbian relationships, marketed to men, gave closeted women needed representation.