MARGARET MEAD AND HUMANITY'S COMING OF AGE
How one woman changed the way people look at people.
LINCOLN IN MOURNING
A new novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, probes the president's deep sorrow. But how did his son's death change the president and the Civil War?
UNITED WE SPEAK... AMERICAN
You say "youse." I say "you guys." You say "pop." I say "soda." Let's call ourselves American.
RUBE GOLDBERG -- MASTER OF CRAZY CONTRAPTIONS
Inventive, clever, funny, cartoonist Rube Goldberg captured our love/hate affair with machines.
ELIZABETH COTTEN -- THE WOMAN WHO PLAYED UPSIDE DOWN
Elizabeth Cotten charmed audiences with her "Freight Train" and her unique picking.
THOMAS PAINE -- BEYOND "COMMON SENSE"
In these "times that try men's souls," Thomas Paine offers a remedy -- believe in people, not institutions.
DINNER WITH JUDY CHICAGO
How an idea at a dinner party turned into an art masterpiece. The table is set.
THE BATTLE FOR CHRISTMAS
A “War on Christmas?” Nothing new. In fact, the modern holiday emerged from a battle against seasonal revelry. Ho ho ho.
THE LITTLE GALLERY THAT CAUGHT THE LIGHT
Photography was not art until Alfred Stieglitz and his little gallery insisted that it was.
AN AUCTION IN BRICK CITY
Hebron bricks were “what America is made of.” But the bricklayer’s house went for a song.
THE GRAND COULEE DAM -- "BIGGEST THING THAT MAN HAS EVER DONE"
Fifty stories high and a mile wide. The Attic visits the great Grand Coulee Dam.
SATCHEL -- THE OLD MAN AND THE GAME
The starting pitcher was 59-years-old. "Don't look back, something might be gaining on you."