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When examining the history of the mid-twentieth century, the overwhelming statistics of wartime losses can sometimes obscure the individual lives behind the numbers. Millions of innocent civilians were uprooted, displaced, […]

They say the Kroll family did not die out. They say the Kroll family only went deeper, deeper into the hollow, deeper into the limestone, deeper into a bloodline that […]

I was 22 when I learned that the human body can withstand much more pain that the mind cannot bear accept. And I learned it on my knees pointed stones […]

I was 20 years old when I learned that the human body could be reduced to a stopwatch.  I’m not talking about metaphor, I’m talking about something literal, measured [music].  […]

On the morning of August 12th, 1843, a woman’s scream shattered the silence of Willowbrook Plantation in South Carolina’s low country. What Catherine Hargrove witnessed in her husband’s private quarters […]

Late summer 1831, St. Cyprian Parish on the Mississippi. The baptism book lies open on a table that lists every hour in neat ink. At the bottom of one page, […]

The year was 1849 and on a farm in Vale do Paraíba something happened that no one could imagine. A 48-year-old married woman three decades ago with one of the […]

There’s a photograph that exists in the Jefferson County archives that no one talks about anymore. It shows four children standing in front of a farmhouse in the winter of […]

Thanks for coming from Facebook. We know we left the story at a difficult moment to process. What you’re about to read is the complete continuation of what this experienced. […]

Today’s story takes us to 1861. Celia, she fed her masters day after day, plate after plate, until they grew heavy, slow, obese with excess. Then the enslaved woman did […]