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John Henry James, falsely accused of rape in 1898, was charged soon after – but he had already been killed by armed locals

Alison J. Dray-Novey, who taught history at Notre Dame University of Maryland, died from COVID-19 and Parkinson’s disease at Tuckerman Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in North Bethesda. The Roland Park resident was 77.

The habitat where wild animals live and reproduce requires land conservation, which is directly funded by the fees from hunting-fishing-trapping licenses.

In his cell in Taloja jail, the activist now reads voraciously—from contemporary history to detective fiction—and writes, his reflections on the society and books; Malcolm X was right about living in jail

On June 2, 1892, a mob brutally beat and then lynched Robert Lewis, a 28-year-old African American teamster at Delaware House, the leading hotel in Port Jervis, New York. Lewis

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Philip Dray’s book “A Lynching at Port Jervis” unearths the history of an 1892 murder of a Black man at the hands of a white mob.

A new book about the mob killing of a Black man in 1892 shares eye-opening history of Hudson Valley racism and slavery

In the wake of the Buffalo shooting, Philip Dray’s account of a terrible incident from 1892 seems dreadfully familiar

Novels from Ali Smith, Jean Hanff Korelitz and Mieko Kawakami; a debut Y.A. romance by Casey McQuiston; a sequel to Elif Batuman’s “The Idiot” and much more.