W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was one of the most influential intellectuals in the fight for civil rights. Born just a few years ...

Follow Aliah and Kehau as they take on the male-dominated practice of building Hawaiian hale, traditional thatched structures — a personal and political effort as they reclaim cultural traditions ...

American Masters Pictures Celebrates its 10 th Anniversary with the World Premiere of American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival Directed by David Alvarado, ...

Carole King, fellow songwriters and friends Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, author and music critic Anthony DeCurtis, and Douglas McGrath (writer of book for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) describe ...

In this segment of “Maus,” Art Spiegelman illustrated four Jewish victims hung by Nazis in Poland that Spiegelman’s parents knew. The page provides details about the victims as people, humanizing them ...

The title of Amy Tan’s famous novel was also the name of an investment club made up of Tan’s parents and friends. Sandy Bremner, one of Tan’s friends from childhood, describes how powerful it was for ...

Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty (1933 – 1993), both successful singer-songwriters in their own right, together made 11 studio albums between 1971 and 1988. Hits from those country albums included five ...

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Author Ursula K. Le Guin shares her National Book Award with all the writers “who were excluded from literature for so long.” To watch the full speech, click here. "The Left Hand of Darkness" and ...

The late and great Norman Corwin was from the generation after Carl Sandburg’s. Writing for radio in the 1930s and 40s, Corwin’s broadcast titles included, “The Plot to Overthrow Christmas,” a drama ...

To most Americans, he was the eternal Crooner: a much celebrated and beloved performer of unparalleled popularity. Yet Bing Crosby was far more than that: He was an architect of 20th century ...

It has been nearly a quarter of a century since the death of a minor American actress named Marilyn Monroe. There is no reason for her to be a part of my consciousness as I walk down a midtown New ...