His English was fast and loose but his fastball was faster. There was only one Dizzy Dean.

How an unknown grad student, mother of five, became a historian, an inspiration, a meme.

While the nation watched, Barbara Jordan stepped out of the Jim Crow past to defend democracy.

Like the music it celebrated, the iconic photo of jazz greats was mostly improv.

When a nine-year-old girl asked about trading cards, her mother and aunt got busy. And “Supersisters” went viral.

Critics scoffed but Amory Lovins has stayed on “the soft path” to renewable energy.

Native-American portraits were stuck in the past. So Matika Wilbur set out to photograph all 562 nations.

Once Frederick Douglass rose to speak, Independence Day no longer seemed so free.

Women couldn’t run 26 miles. Impossible. Then women jumped into the pack in Boston, and ran and ran. . .

1950 World Cup — America’s amateurs take on the British “Kings of Football.” Do you believe in miracles?

Automobiles were for men, men, men. Then Alice Ramsey and friends set out coast-to-coast — in 1909.

Think there are few heroes in our cynical age? The Carnegie Hero Fund knows thousands.

When W.E.B. DuBois debated Lothrop Stoddard, white supremacy was laughed off the stage.

Booted out of the Reich, Dorothy Thompson warned Americans of Nazis in their midst. Was anyone listening?

Neighbors considered it a swamp but Marjory Stoneman Douglas saved the Everglades and inspired a generation.

Like the old folks who spoke it, Yiddish was dying out. Then Aaron Lanky rented a truck and. . . Mazel tov!