Overview :Between 1875 and 1920, Chicago's homicide rate more than quadrupled, making it the most violent major urban center in the United States--or,... Read More
Overview :New Orleans in the 1920s and 1930s was a deadly place. In 1925, the city's homicide rate was six times that of New York City and twelve time... Read More
Overview :A searing chronicle of how racist violence became an ingrained facet of law enforcement in the United States. Too often, scholars and pundi... Read More
Overview :In 1850 St. Louis was the commercial capital of the West. By 1860, however, Chicago had supplanted St. Louis and became the great metropolis... Read More
Overview :Millions of people live with cirrhosis of the liver, a degenerative, complex, and often misunderstood condition in which liver cells are dam... Read More