WHEN BIGOTRY STRUCK OUT

When the Massachusetts team went South, its star black player came face-to-face with Jim Crow. And guess what the whole team did for Bunny?

History, HEROESThe AtticMay 17, 2019Springfield Mass, Baseball, Race Comments

TEXAS HARNESSES HOT AIR

Texas has seen the future and it blows. Wind energy, that is.

American PlacesThe AtticMay 17, 2019Texas, Wind energy, Alternative energyComment

"ICARUS" -- THE PHOTO THAT FLEW

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

IDA TARBELL -- THE WOMAN WHO TOOK ON ROCKEFELLER

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

MARIAN ANDERSON AND THE CONCERT THAT STIRRED AMERICA

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

Women, History, HEROESThe AtticFebruary 21, 2019Marian Anderson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lincoln Memorial, D.A.R. Comment

HOPE'S PERSISTENT CHAMPION

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

BOOK-ISHThe AtticFebruary 15, 2019women, lit, american originals Comments

ALAN LOMAX AND "WHERE THE SONGS LIVE"

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

THE WOMAN WHO SAID 'NO' TO MCCARTHY

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

HEROES, DEMOCRACYThe AtticFebruary 8, 2019Margaret Chase Smith, Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism, Idealism, 1950s Comments

JACOB LAWRENCE -- BLACK AND WHITE IN COLOR

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

ART-ISHThe AtticFebruary 8, 2019Jacob Lawrence, Harlem art, Harlem, African-American art Comment

MR. FEYNMAN GOES TO WASHINGTON

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

Science, teachersThe AtticJanuary 31, 2019feynman, challenger, science, American Originals Comments

NELLIE ON THE FLY

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

DUELING HISTORIES (VIDEO)

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

AMERICA'S DIY MUSIC -- JUG BAND

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

CAROL GILLIGAN AND THE BOOK THAT LISTENED TO GIRLS

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

REBELS, BOOK-ISHThe AtticDecember 31, 2018Carol Gilligan, Women's psychology, Girls education, STEM Comments

FANNIE LOU HAMER -- IS THIS AMERICA?

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

JEANNETTE RANKIN -- THE WOMAN WHO SAID 'NO' TO WAR

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

HEROESThe AtticDecember 15, 2018women, history, Jeannette Rankin, World War I, Pacifism, Women in politics Comments

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