Inside RFK’s Funeral Train: How His Final Journey Helped a Nation GrieveThe New York-to-Washington train had 21 cars, 700 passengers—and millions of trackside mourners.Read more
How American Icon Henry Ford Fostered Anti-SemitismThe man known for changing the auto industry also used his immense power and influence to quash unions, control immigrant workers and vilify Jewish people.Read more
‘Blood in the Water’: The Cold War Olympic Showdown Between Hungary and the USSRJust weeks before the match, Soviet tanks and troops brutally crushed the short-lived Hungarian Revolution.Read more
How Billie Jean King Led the Equal Pay for Play BattleFrom the start, the 39-time Grand Slam winner showed that she wasn’t just an ace on the tennis courts, but also in the long fight for gender equity.Read more
Why Mixed-Race Children in Post-WWII Germany Were Deemed a ‘Social Problem’As racism impacted both sides of the Atlantic, ‘Brown Babies’, the children born to Black GIs and white European women, faced an uncertain future.Read more
How AIDS Activists Used ‘Die-Ins’ to Demand Attention to the Growing EpidemicProtesters feigned mass death to shock and shame government, industry and the media into finally addressing the lethal disease.Read more
When Joe Louis Boxed Nazi Favorite Max SchmelingAs Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party loomed over Europe, an American and a German boxer squared off in the ring. They’d meet again two years later.Read more
‘Miracle on Ice’: When the US Olympic Hockey Team Stunned the WorldGrit and an eccentric coach both played a part when the American hockey squad beat the odds and defeated the Soviet team at the 1980 Winter Olympics.Read more
The Queer Victorian Doctors Who Paved the Way for Women in MedicineIn an era when women were discouraged from entering the work force, these women forged ahead in a profession normally exclusive to men.Read more
The Tulsa Race Massacre: Facts About the AttackThe Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma had flourished as a neighborhood built by Black people, for Black people. In 1921 it was destroyed by a white mob. Get the facts on the attack and subsequent coverup.Read more
9 Doping Scandals That Changed SportsAthletes have always been driven to win, but the advent of performance-enhancing drugs has resulted in stripped titles, ban from sports and more.Read more
Why Black American Athletes Raised Their Fists at the 1968 OlympicsAfter sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos made a defiant gesture from the awards podium at the Games, they faced repercussions—but also gained respect.Read more