From “behind the curtain of my mind,” the fabulous Belle da Costa Greene masterminded the Morgan Library.

When he crossed America by convoy in 1919, the future president saw the need for “broader ribbons across our land.” The seed of our interstate highways was planted.

Beloved dogs abound but none captured hearts like Rin-tin-tin. Not even Hollywood could make this up.

When a radical Mexican muralist began to paint at Dartmouth, some wanted his work destroyed. The college president refused.

The astronauts rehearsed every maneuver for the moon landing, except planting the flag. Oops!

When Grace Hopper met those beastly first computers, they spoke only in numbers. “Grandma COBOL” soon taught them English.

When the Massachusetts team went South, its star black player came face-to-face with Jim Crow. And guess what the whole team did for Bunny?

Few battles had been so mismatched. A billionaire tycoon vs. a woman with a pen. The winner?

When the D.A.R. turned Marian Anderson away, Eleanor Roosevelt and friends found a better venue.

Bullied into silence, Congress got a lesson in integrity from Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME).

As the first woman in Congress, Montana's Jeannette Rankin had many goals. But war intervened -- twice.

Long before Martin Luther King, W.E.B. DuBois had a dream.

Radio news was dead on arrival until Edward R. Murrow went live from the rooftops of London.

When the president and the naturalist camped in Yosemite, America got greener.

Women had marched, picketed protested for 70 years. Then the Silent Sentinels were jailed, tortured, force fed. And you’re too busy to vote? (As seen in “Iron Jawed Angels.”)

How one woman changed the way people look at people.