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.”)

"They cannot roll back the rising tide of reform.  The world moves."

"In America, there are two kinds of travel -- first class and travel with children."

-- Meet Robert Benchley.

"Would y'all like to see my Daddy's pottery?"  The garage door opened to reveal reds, blues, yellows, and genius. 

How one woman changed the way people look at people.

Turning the grand old flag into art took genius.

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?

You say "youse."  I say "you guys." You say "pop."  I say "soda."  Let's call ourselves American.

Inventive, clever, funny, cartoonist Rube Goldberg captured our love/hate affair with machines.

Elizabeth Cotten charmed audiences with her "Freight Train" and her unique picking.

In these "times that try men's souls," Thomas Paine offers a remedy -- believe in people, not institutions.

How an idea at a dinner party turned into an art masterpiece.  The table is set.

A “War on Christmas?” Nothing new. In fact, the modern holiday emerged from a battle against seasonal revelry. Ho ho ho.

Photography was not art until Alfred Stieglitz and his little gallery insisted that it was.

Intercourse, Hell, Boring, What Cheer...

They were Dizzy, Daffy, and Ducky. They clowned, brawled, and romped through the Great Depression.