Hearst Castle exterior: front of the Casa Grande. Photo by Wim Wiskerke / Alamy Stock Photo From the early 1920s until 1947, William Randolph Hearst lived in a castle on his family's San Simeon estate ...
Faced with the growing threat of African American political, economic and social power, white Southerners put aside their ...
He felt black Americans were entitled to secure their rights "by any means necessary" — up to and including the use of ...
When the Russians took decisive moves to drive the Allies out in June 1948, no one knew whether an airlift response could ...
The New York State Liquor Authority refused to issue liquor licenses to many gay bars, and several popular establishments had ...
Turning his back on the intense privacy that had shielded the family for generations, he took the Rockefellers in a bold new ...
Carnegie spent a large portion of his wealth setting up more than 2,500 public libraries and supporting universities and ...
The Apollo 8 astronauts were heroes, but they were also human. They shared jokes and fun, moments of weakness, and the ...
When the economics committee asked a young researcher, Ariel Rubinstein, to report on the most promising Nobel candidates in ...
Roosevelt was a member of the DAR. She became a columnist, I think with Scripps-Howard. And she wrote a column titled My Day.
Eugene O'Neill drew on the tragic events of his dysfunctional family's life to produce some of the most powerful dramas of ...
The success of the Apollo 8 mission in December of 1968 was a triumph that the nation and the world could appreciate.