10/20/2016 - 10:54
What if the ruby slippers, those glorious shoes that took Dorothy down the yellow brick road, turned dark? Instead of sparkling red, sparkling maroon -- or sparkling brown? It wouldn't be the same, would it?
10/17/2016 - 09:04
Both cases involved massacres at schools. Both involved young men with mental health issues who took aim at family members before taking the lives of others. Both involved heroism, mourning and, in the end, calls to action.
10/03/2016 - 10:28
They are regal, smart and, most of all, self-assured. A solid 30 years before women won the right to vote, the drawings of Charles Dana Gibson defined a new feminine ideal.
09/19/2016 - 10:08
It’s rare to see a see a monument honoring the heroics of someone whose name is not on the stone.
09/13/2016 - 18:05
Is it anybody's business that Hillary Clinton has pneumonia or that Donald Trump has offered little in the way of medical records?
09/06/2016 - 17:07
Even if you are the sort of person who memorializes every poop in a public potty by scratching your name on the stall, you probably would
never pull out a pen at someone’s home -- especially if the place once belonged to George Washington.
08/18/2016 - 11:31
Not long after the Civil War, memorials started going up, and throughout the South, Confederate generals guard courthouses and town squares. Less well remembered are the thousands murdered in lynchings during the century following the war.
08/16/2016 - 09:28
Somewhere around the fourth grade, schoolchildren study that humans populated the Americas by crossing a land bridge from Siberia to Alaska. After ice sheets receded, humans moved south using an ice-free corridor.
08/10/2016 - 09:16
In the Cold War days of 1967, U.S. officials mistook a natural phenomenon -- a solar storm -- as an attack on radio communications. The mistake could have ended in war.