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HNOC acquired an original copy of the infamous image that took Civil War-era America by storm, quickly becoming a tool of the abolitionist cause.

This stylish menu from a restaurant in a former plantation home belies the site’s dark history of human enslavement.

Louisiana’s travelling electric chair, and the shift from public to private executions

An unusual periodical, written and produced by residents of the state mental hospital in the mid-20th century

Coffee maven Rose Nicaud declared that “everybody takes coffee at my stand,” regardless of race. After a man was shot near her stand, she entered the roiling Reconstruction-era debate over the limits of integration.