News of the Week: Stormy Weather, 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet, and How Cool Is Martha Stewart?
In the news for the week ending October 29, 2021, are wind and rain, landlines and TV Guide, Martha Stewart, a historic gunfight, and more.
In the news for the week ending October 29, 2021, are wind and rain, landlines and TV Guide, Martha Stewart, a historic gunfight, and more.
Esther Bubley’s photographs offer an unvarnished and intimate depiction of the World War II-era homefront.
Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer’s testimony at the 1964 Democratic Convention was an uncomfortable dose of reality for liberal America.
When it comes to key issues such as white supremacist violence, voting rights, and structural inequity and inequality, America remains far too close to where it was in the summer of 1963.
Bayard Rustin was shut out of Civil Rights history for decades because of his sexual orientation.
A world-renowned science historian weighs in on the significance of scientific consensus.
With America plunged into World War II, Martha must make a tough decision about her daughter’s future.
Ben Railton explains why the Philippine-American War deserves far more of a presence in our collective memories, for its own sake but also for the lessons it can impart about post-9/11 America.
Val Lauder was a high school student when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. She shares her memories of life during the war.
Proposed by President John F. Kennedy and delivered after his assassination, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 reckoned with the malignancy of discrimination.
15 years ago, Mayor Gavin Newsom directed the city-county clerk to issue same-sex marriage licenses in San Francisco. What followed changed the country forever.
Martha Gellhorn, born 110 years ago, covered some of the most impactful events of the 20th century, and she did it without permission.
West Virginia’s labor war from a century ago resurfaces owing to some grassroots historians.
More than 150 years after the Civil War’s start, its legacy – the bravery and idealism, as well as the conflict and pain – remains very much alive.
Young German prisoners of war interned in the American heartland during World War II seemed an awful lot like us, and, for the most part, we treated them royally.
The Fair Housing Act was signed into law 50 years ago, but racial segregation remains a pervasive problem.