It took courage to build skyscrapers, and courage to photograph the ones who “built America.”

Few battles had been so mismatched. A billionaire tycoon vs. a woman with a pen. The winner?

When the D.A.R. turned Marian Anderson away, Eleanor Roosevelt and friends found a better venue.

"The future is dark, with a darkness as much of the womb as the grave." -- Rebecca Solnit

The songs came and went but Alan Lomax hunkered down and caught them — for all time and for all people.

Bullied into silence, Congress got a lesson in integrity from Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME).

The history was black. The colors were Harlem. Jacob Lawrence interwove them and lit up the past.

When the physicist investigated the Challenger, America got a lesson from a master.

Long before journalists were “embedded,” Nellie Bly amazed readers from inside an asylum and by circling the globe — in 72 days.

Why are Americans so divided? Whole books have tried to answer. The Attic explains it in three minutes (and change.)

Got the blues? Listen to its offspring and try not to smile. And hear six jug band tunes in “I Hear America Singing.”

The study said… The study said… Then Carol Gilligan realized. The study had only studied boys. Might girls speak “In a Different Voice”?

Fannie Lou Hamer was the soul of Mississippi’s civil rights movement. Soon all of America would hear her voice.

As the first woman in Congress, Montana's Jeannette Rankin had many goals. But war intervened -- twice.

Deaf, dumb, and blind, she lived “at sea in a dense fog.” And then her teacher came. (As seen in “The Miracle Worker.”)

Long before Martin Luther King, W.E.B. DuBois had a dream.