It may be the most underappreciated yet impactful technology from the 20th century. And it’s a technology that is still evolving in the 21st. Few of us might even think...

Sebastião Salgado was born in 1944 in Brazil. He earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris and started his professional career as an economist for the International...

Our national park system has been described as a gift that we as Americans give to ourselves. The early history of our national parks, however, is one of gifts denied...

Each year, we tend to recognize new words that come into our vocabulary. Often these words reflect trends in pop culture and tend to be hip. (The Oxford Dictionary declared...

Margaret Chung was born in California in 1889 to Chinese immigrant parents. Margaret grew up in a devout Christian family and had hopes of going to China as a medical...

Margaret (Peggy) Garner was born into slavery in Kentucky. Her enslaver was most likely her biological father. She married in 1849 to a person enslaved by the same owner. She...

The founding fathers were concerned to make sure that the government they were creating should not have the power to take people’s property for public use without the owner’s permission....

Buck Adams (a pseudonym) was an African American soldier during World War II. As a trained mechanic, he worked closely with the WAAF (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force). He began a...

Camille Claudel was born in France in 1864. Her early education was a traditional Catholic education. As she grew older, she became interested in an artistic future and began to...