“Facts” are flying fast and footloose, but America’s fact-checkers are standing up for Truth.

Believers shout “True!” Cynics cry “B.S.!” But the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry says, “prove it.”

Americans ate anything on the table — formaldehyde, borax, chalk — until a crusading chemist went to work.

Automobiles were for men, men, men. Then Alice Ramsey and friends set out coast-to-coast — in 1909.

From burning river to free flowing waters, the Cuyahoga River has come back. “It’s a miracle.”

Two million children toiled 12-hour days. Having lost her own children, Mother Jones wanted the nation to know.

An orange was an orange was. . . So California growers turned their labels into art.

The old station was a tomb, slated for demolition. Then the former First Lady stepped up.

From radio’s heyday to SNL and beyond, audiences loved the gentle mockery of Bob and Ray.

Nashville had plenty of Hanks and Patsys, but there was only one Roger Miller.

Think there are few heroes in our cynical age? The Carnegie Hero Fund knows thousands.

Two rivers and three states converge to make Harpers Ferry astonishing. But John Brown also made it historic.

Mark Twain roamed the world, but came home to an astonishing house. “There ought to be a room in this house to swear in.”

F.O. Stanley needed a place to die. Stephen King needed a plot. Together they haunt the Stanley Hotel. (As seen in “The Shining.”)

As Texas grows and glows, Hill Country towns are dimming the lights and saving the night sky.

The Attic journeys over the Sierras on the trackbeds of America’s epic Transcontinental Railroad.