Histories

In 1963, at least 15 Black girls were imprisoned in the Leesburg Stockade for 45 days.

Bridgette McGee sets out to uncover the truth about what happened to her grandfather.

Hart Island, an uninhabited strip of land off the Bronx, is America’s largest public cemetery, sometimes known as a “potter’s field.”...

Ground-breaking, but controversial broadcasters who each used the microphone in different ways: one to warn, one to rile, one to preach.

Former Senator Fred Harris is the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission.

Secret Service Agent Clint Hill was in the motorcade the day President Kennedy was assassinated.

In the spring of 1981, two minor-league teams played the longest game in professional baseball.

Pat Rush and her family fled Arkansas in the wake of the Dust Bowl.

Back in the 1960s, the John Birch Society called on Americans to fight communists they said had infiltrated American society.

While NASA was making headlines for its quest to send a man to the moon, the Navy was quietly building homes on the ocean floor.