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Some songs tell you a story. Others make you feel like you’ve lived it. “The River” belongs to the second category. Released in 1980 as the...
He was broke, he was in love, and he was out of options. So he improvised. It was the summer of 1947, and a young performer...
When the news broke in the summer of 1939 that a thirty-one-year-old Black woman had just become a judge, plenty of people assumed it wouldn’t mean...
Millions of Americans were certain they knew Vivian Vance. She was the sensible one. The frumpy next-door neighbor in a housedress, forever mopping up after Lucy...
She wasn’t legally allowed to serve in combat. She ended up doing it while wounded and hanging off the skid of a helicopter, firing at the...
When the world celebrated the first woman in space back in 1963, many people quietly assumed the barrier had been broken. The headlines ran, the applause...
A war hero once begged for scraps outside the churches of Buenos Aires. People walked past her every day. A ragged old woman, hand out, asking...
Four men carrying weapons boarded the plane disguised as airport security guards. The youngest flight attendant on board was 22 years old. Within seconds, she became...
She was offered a place at the most celebrated architectural event of the century. She turned it down over a paycheck. And in doing so, she...
Before sunrise, while most of her classmates were still asleep, a young girl in Connecticut was already lacing up her skates. That was Dorothy Hamill’s childhood:...