It took courage to build skyscrapers, and courage to photograph the ones who “built America.”
Read MoreFew battles had been so mismatched. A billionaire tycoon vs. a woman with a pen. The winner?
Read MoreWhen the D.A.R. turned Marian Anderson away, Eleanor Roosevelt and friends found a better venue.
Read More"The future is dark, with a darkness as much of the womb as the grave." -- Rebecca Solnit
Read MoreThe songs came and went but Alan Lomax hunkered down and caught them — for all time and for all people.
Read MoreBullied into silence, Congress got a lesson in integrity from Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME).
Read MoreThe history was black. The colors were Harlem. Jacob Lawrence interwove them and lit up the past.
Read MoreWhen the physicist investigated the Challenger, America got a lesson from a master.
Read MoreLong before journalists were “embedded,” Nellie Bly amazed readers from inside an asylum and by circling the globe — in 72 days.
Read MoreWhy are Americans so divided? Whole books have tried to answer. The Attic explains it in three minutes (and change.)
Read MoreGot the blues? Listen to its offspring and try not to smile. And hear six jug band tunes in “I Hear America Singing.”
Read MoreThe study said… The study said… Then Carol Gilligan realized. The study had only studied boys. Might girls speak “In a Different Voice”?
Read MoreFannie Lou Hamer was the soul of Mississippi’s civil rights movement. Soon all of America would hear her voice.
Read MoreAs the first woman in Congress, Montana's Jeannette Rankin had many goals. But war intervened -- twice.
Read MoreDeaf, 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.
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