On a winter night, alone and adrift, he checked into a fleabag hotel and began a new song. This land is your land, this land is my land. . .

After centuries of smooth sailing, Columbus ran into the shoals of history. And Indigenous Peoples’ Day was born.

Others saw TV as mindless, but George Gerbner saw it as mean. And he had the data to prove it.

During WW I, when famine loomed, Herbert Hoover masterminded a global relief effort that saved millions.

“There’s no secret to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”

Reading science fiction, Octavia Butler saw no one like herself. So she vowed to “write myself in.”

Turning his back to the continent, Robinson Jeffers offered an answer for our own troubled times.

Builders offered jobs on the ground, but the Mohawks soared. Soon these “Fearless Wonders” were building the American skyline.

Broadway’s biggest hit celebrates the Founding Father, but without Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, there would have been no “Hamilton.”

He was a computer whiz. She was his creation, programmed to debunk AI. So why did people keep “talking” to ELIZA?

When Pop Art flared in the 1960s, Sister Mary Corita saw the light. Her brilliant colors soon preached love, peace, and hope.

Light dazzled the ancients but it took James Turrell to use everyday radiance as a paint brush.

Income equality? Unions? Co-ops? Busting up corporations? The radical left? Nah, just American farmers.

A Wasabi Alarm? Astrology Charts for Bacteria? Scheduled Earthquakes? The Ig-Nobels are science for wise guys.

Slavery continued in Texas for months after the war. Then came the word — on Juneteenth.

After reading with Ginsberg, teaching Zen to Kerouac, Gary Snyder followed his own path to become “the poet laureate of deep ecology.”