Long before he became a Congressman from Massachusetts, Barney Frank volunteered for the Freedom Summer project in 1964. As a teenager in New Jersey, Frank had been deeply affected by the murder of ...

Will Percy attended Harvard Law School and returned home to practice law in the family's firm in Greenville, Mississippi as ...

Witnessing the war in Vietnam, many non-governmental and humanitarian groups were motivated to act. The United Nations tried to intervene, but was paralyzed by Cold War politics. With the United ...

In 2007, the Panamanian government launched a $5.25 billion, seven-year project to update and improve the canal.

Those who fought in the Battle of Chosin Reservoir call themselves the “Chosin Few." Explore their portraits and stories.

Stephen L. Hardin is a history professor at The Victoria College in Victoria, Texas. Professor Hardin has served as a ...

American military leaders were caught off guard at the Chosin Reservoir. Explore photos of the storied battle.

Art by Mawhyah Milton. Source photo of L. Frank Baum: Library of Congress. L. Frank Baum needed a new life. In February 1886, his brother and business partner Benjamin died of pneumonia. The two Baum ...

Mamie Till's decision to hold an open-casket funeral would make her son's death a touchstone for a generation.

The school day opens with prayer at private school at the Farm Bureau building. Pie Town, New Mexico, June 1940. Library of Congress. Steven Engel was a parent in New Hyde Park, New York. He and a ...

When Carnegie joined the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1853, trains carried a sense of wonder. At six cents a mile, a ride didn't ...

During the decade-long American effort to build the Panama Canal, the project had three different Chief Engineers.