Domestic Terrorism
The Oklahoma City Bombing: Homegrown Terror in the Heartland
On April 19 1995 a decorated Army veteran detonated a truck bomb that killed 168 people — including 19 children — in the deadliest act of domestic terrorism before 9/11.
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Independent history writing about the parts of the American record that get skipped. Every claim here is sourced — check the citations and argue with them.
Domestic Terrorism
The KKK Across Three Eras: America's Longest-Running Terrorist Organization
The Ku Klux Klan has been declared dead three times and came back each time — 150 years of terror across Reconstruction, the 1920s, and the civil rights era.
Assassinations
American Assassinations: When the Country Kills Its Leaders
Four presidents killed by gunfire. At least seven more survived. From Lincoln in 1865 to Reagan in 1981 — the full history of political violence against American leaders.
Assassinations
The Ones Who Survived: Reagan Ford Teddy Roosevelt and the Near-Misses
At least seven presidents survived assassination attempts — including Reagan shot within an inch of his heart and Ford targeted twice in 17 days in 1975.
Assassinations
RFK: The Second Kennedy to Die by Assassination
Robert Kennedy was shot in the Ambassador Hotel kitchen in Los Angeles on June 5 1968 minutes after winning the California primary — and died the next morning.
Assassinations
JFK: The Assassination That Broke America's Brain
Kennedy was shot in Dealey Plaza on November 22 1963 — and the murder of his accused killer two days later created a vacuum 60 years of conspiracy theories still fill.
Assassinations
William McKinley: The Anarchist's Bullet
McKinley was shot September 6 1901 at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo by anarchist Leon Czolgosz — and died eight days later from gangrene.
Assassinations
James Garfield: Killed by a Man Who Wanted a Government Job
A man who wanted a government job fired the gun. A team of doctors who would not wash their hands spent eleven weeks finishing the work. The country got civil service reform out of it.
Assassinations
Abraham Lincoln: The Shot That Changed the Country
Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre on April 14 1865 — and his death handed Andrew Johnson the presidency and accelerated the collapse of Reconstruction.
Racial Terror
Racial Terror in American History
Four series covering four centuries of organized racial violence in America — from slave patrols to the Buffalo supermarket shooting of 2022.
Racial Terror
Racial Violence in Modern America
Three articles on racial violence from 1998 to the present — Charleston Buffalo El Paso and the data showing it never stopped after the civil rights era.
Racial Terror
White Supremacist Resurgence: The Movement That Never Left
White supremacy did not resurge — it evolved from Klan robes to encrypted apps and YouTube algorithms. The FBI calls racially motivated extremism America's top domestic terror threat.