Deaf, dumb, and blind, she lived “at sea in a dense fog.” And then her teacher came. (As seen in “The Miracle Worker.”)
Read MoreLong before Martin Luther King, W.E.B. DuBois had a dream.
Read MoreOn Desolation Peak, Jack Kerouac expected to find God. Instead he found himself, and his best book, The Dharma Bums.
Read MoreOne man. A vision. Thirty years working in his backyard. The Watts Towers are "as pure a work of art as this country can rightly call its own."
Read MoreA century ago, in the bleakest of years, other poets despaired. But one lit her candle -- at both ends.
Read MoreLoss after loss, Harvey Milk kept battering at the door. If he could only “give them hope.” (As seen in “Milk.”)
Read MoreA shrill song is stuck in our heads. Once it plays out, we should listen to the old tunes.
Read MoreAmerican art was pretty and pink until The Ashcan School took the streets as its canvas.
Read MoreRadio news was dead on arrival until Edward R. Murrow went live from the rooftops of London. Hear it Now — his live reports.
Read MoreAlone on an island rooftop, Maria Mitchell’s telescope “swept” the stars. Could a woman calculate the clockwork of heaven?
Read MoreThe guitar growls, moans, weeps. A bass riff surrenders to a squeal of pain. . .
Read MoreHow Langston Hughes touched bottom during the Depression and wrote an American anthem.
Read MoreCoal miners distrusted Barbara Kopple until she hunkered down with them -- for three years -- and came home with a living, breathing masterpiece.
Read MoreBaseball was a fading relic. Then a Chaplinesque college kid put on a chicken suit.
Read MoreSingle mother of seven, Dolores Huerta left her teaching job and went into the fields. The United Farm Workers was born.
Read MoreHistory’s Mill Girls were models of labor. Until they went on strike and sowed the seeds of the Labor movement.
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