Eugenicists like Paul Popenoe relied on dangerously flawed theories of heredity to describe different groups of people. Popenoe shows a couple a pedigree of "Black People of Artistic Ability," 1930.

Scientist Mária Telkes spent her life chasing the sun. Telkes, who was born in Hungary in 1900, first became interested in solar energy while studying at the University of Budapest. After receiving ...

Three decades before the “War on Terror” and its orientation of “Islamic terrorism” as the principal threat to American security, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was its standing talisman. The color ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/cancer-detectives-brief-history-speculum/ 1847 specula. Source image: National Library of Medicine. Many ...

Left: A racist postcard, labeled with the epithet “Little Africa,” depicts Greenwood burning during the massacre. Image credits: Tulsa Historical Society & Museum and Mike Simons I have never seen a ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/how-press-reported-atomic-bomb/ The New York Times proudly touted its exclusive coverage of the atomic bomb ...

Children at a German American Bund camp stand at attention as the American flag and the Bund youth flag are lowered in a sundown ceremony in Andover, N.J., July 21, 1937. Associated Press. Most of the ...

A mob celebrates in front of the burned Love & Charity Hall which housed the black-owned and -edited newspaper, The Daily Record. Courtesy of New Hanover County Public Library. This is the story of ...

Candy Land is one of the top selling children’s board games of all time selling an average of one million units per year. The game, which invites players to explore a peppermint stick forest, a peanut ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/citizen-hearst-william-randolph-hearst-and-mccarthyism/ Caption: Senator Joseph MCcarthy presents to fellow U.S ...

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 ...

The 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment is a chance to recover less well-known histories of women and the vote. If we take away little else, the suffrage centennial can teach us how the Black ...