The Sabinada (1837) — The Revolt That Ended with Salvador in Flames and Over a Thousand Dead

The African Mosquito Plague (1938): The Epidemic That Killed 14,000 in a Single City and Vanished...

Anchieta Island 1952 — Brazil's First Great Prison Break and the Island That Vanished From Memory

The 1942 Camps — Where Brazil Imprisoned Germans and Japanese Who Already Had Brazilian Children

Ilha das Flores — Where Brazil Locked Up Immigrants Before Letting Them Step Ashore

The Islanders — The Families Portugal Took from the Azores to Populate Southern Brazil

The Recolhimentos — Where Brazil Locked Away the Daughters No One Could Marry

The Exiles — The Women Portugal Forcibly Shipped to Populate Brazil

The Mucker War of 1874 — The German Community in RS Destroyed by the Army with the Help of Their ...

As Amas de Leite — As Mães Escravizadas Obrigadas a Criar os Filhos dos Senhores

The Vaccine Revolt of 1904 — The 6 Days Rio Became a Battlefield

Pig's Head (1893) - The Night the River Surrounded a Tenement

The Republic of Acre (1899) — The Country That Existed Where Brazil Is Today

The Iguaçu Territory — The Brazilian State That Existed and Was Erased from the Map

The Bombardment of Manaus (1910) — When Warships Attacked the Rubber Capital

The King’s Orphans — The Girls Portugal Sent to Colonial Brazil for Marriage

Anhatomirim (1894) — The Fortress Where the Republic Executed Its Prisoners Without Trial

Fordlândia — The American City Henry Ford Built in the Amazon and the Jungle Swallowed

The 1893 Naval Revolt - The Brazilian Warships That Bombarded Rio de Janeiro

The Yellow Fever in Campinas (1889) — The City That Lost a Third of Its Population and Became a G...

The Quilombo do Ambrósio (1746) — The Hidden Kingdom Destroyed by Government Artillery

The Ragamuffin War (1835) — The 10 Years When Gaucho Grandfathers and Great-Grandfathers Stood Up...

O Bombardeio de Salvador (1912) — Quando o Governo Federal Atacou a Capital da Bahia

The SAM (1941) — The “School” Where Brazil Locked Up Poor Boys and Manufactured the Crime It Clai...

The Rubber Soldiers (1943) — The 30 Thousand Northeasterners Brazil Sent to the Jungle and Forgot

Morro do Castelo (1922) — Rio Leveled the Hill Where the City Was Born and Evicted the Poor

The Ipatinga Massacre (1963): The Executed Workers and the Death Toll They Never Let Us Count

The Bubonic Plague of Santos (1899) — The Black Death That Arrived in Brazil Through the Port of ...

Trombas and Formoso — The Peasants Who Dug Trenches and Stood Up to the Police for Their Land

The Battle of Jenipapo (1823) — The Cowboys with Scythes and Machetes Who Faced Portuguese Cannons

The Free Territory of Princesa (1930): The Country Within Brazil That Vanished From the Map and N...

Santa Dica (1925) — O Povoado de Romeiros que a Polícia Cercou e Atacou no Dia do Fogo

Os Ataques de 1942 — Os Submarinos que Afundaram Navios Brasileiros e Levaram o País à Guerra

The Porto Alegre Flood (1941) — The 40 Days the Capital Spent Underwater

Pau de Colher 1938: The Backlands Settlement

O Trem de Aracaju (1946) — O Maior Desastre Ferroviário do Brasil e Culparam um Só Homem

Fernando de Noronha — Quando o Paraíso Brasileiro Era uma Prisão no Meio do Oceano

The Madeira-Mamoré Railroad (1907–1912) — The Project That Turned the Amazon into a Graveyard

Clevelândia do Norte (1924) — The Jungle Camp Where Hunger and Disease Killed the Government's En...

O Grande Incêndio do Paraná (1963)O Fogo que Destruiu Cidades e Deixou Milhares de Famílias Sem Casa

O Príncipe de Astúrias (1916) — O “Titanic Brasileiro” que Afundou em Minutos e Matou Centenas

The Second Death of Canudos (1968) — The Reservoir That Drowned the Ruins of a Massacred City

Caraguatatuba (1967) — The Day the Mountain Collapsed and Entire Families Vanished in the Mud

The 1932 Revolution — The War in Which Paulistan Grandfathers and Great-Grandfathers Went to Face...

O Incêndio do Gran Circus (1961) — A Tragédia que M4atou 503 Pessoas, a Maioria Cri4nç4s

The 1924 Bombardment of São Paulo — When the Government Attacked the City and Forced Hundreds of ...

The Quebra-Quilos Revolt (1874) — The Uprising of the Poor that the Government Crushed with Arres...

A Varíola de 1908 — A Epidemia que Matou 6.500 Pessoas Quatro Anos Depois da Revolta da Vacina

The Press-Ganged Volunteers (1865) — The Poor Hunted and Forced to Fight in the Paraguayan War

The Leprosy Colonies — The Brazil That Locked Away the Sick and Took Their Babies at Birth

A Cabeça de Lampião — O Troféu que o Brasil Exibiu num Museu por 30 Anos

The Foundling Wheel — The Window Where Brazil Abandoned Its Babies Until 1950

The 1915 Drought: When Fortaleza Fenced In the Refugees and 150 People Died Daily at the Alagadiç...

The 1937 Caldeirão Massacre — The Community Brazil Bombed from the Air and Erased from the Records

The Cholera of 1855 — The Blue Death That Killed 37 Thousand in Pernambuco Alone and Was Kept Sec...

The Botocudo War 1808 — When the Crown Officially Declared War on an Entire People

The Pretos Novos Cemetery — 30,000 Africans Buried Beneath the Homes of Rio

A Traição da Chibata 1910 — 16 Marinheiros Asfixiados com Cal na Véspera de Natal

The Contestado War 1912 — 20,000 Dead in the War Brazil Erased From the Map

The 1932 Government Corrals — The Camps Brazil Built in Ceará