He rose from slavery in the South to international prominence as a writer, orator and anti-slavery activist. Frederick Douglass didn’t spend a...
Harriet Jacobs, held in slavery, wrote a book about her sexual oppression that people didn’t believe for more than a century. Then...
The clerestory window makes a lot of sense in New England because of the short, short days during the long, long winter....
During the depths of the Great Depression, a 17-year-old boy from Warren, R.I., enlisted in the Civilian Conservation Corps. He did it...
Henry Obookiah, a young Hawaiian, caused a stir in the spring of 1815 when he sat in front of the white worshippers...
Ellen Day Hale received little recognition for her art during her lifetime, but she did win independence as a new kind of...