When “the Lincoln of our literature” trekked through Palestine, the traveler’s eternal hopes met facts on the ground.
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Got the blues? Listen to its offspring and try not to smile. And hear six jug band tunes in “I Hear America Singing.”
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Folks in Jericho, Vermont thought the Bentley boy was crazy to be out in the snow. Then they saw his photos.
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The study said… The study said… Then Carol Gilligan realized. The study had only studied boys. Might girls speak “In a Different Voice”?
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How to sum up a year with 52 articles? Six road trips? A dozen lists? Do The Attic 2018 Crossword and WIN a free mug!
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Fannie Lou Hamer was the soul of Mississippi’s civil rights movement. Soon all of America would hear her voice.
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As the first woman in Congress, Montana's Jeannette Rankin had many goals. But war intervened -- twice.
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New York would have locked him up. LA would have let him roam. But San Francisco hailed the eccentric ex-millionaire as “Our Emperor!”
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Many magazines have courted children, but none charmed its readers — and future writers — like St. Nicholas.
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When a radical Mexican muralist began to paint at Dartmouth, some wanted his work destroyed. The college president refused.
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Deaf, dumb, and blind, she lived “at sea in a dense fog.” And then her teacher came.
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The artists of Ant Farm planted their car craziness on the Texas Panhandle. The world came. So did The Attic.
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On Desolation Peak, Jack Kerouac expected to find God. Instead he found himself, and his best book, The Dharma Bums.
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Silent film was dead. Scandal tainted his career. His mother died. The Depression began. And Charlie Chaplin made “City Lights.”
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One man. A vision. 29 years. In his backyard. The Watts Towers are "as pure a work of art as this country can rightly call its own."
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