By the 1960s the television era was in full swing with the onset of full-color programming. But the medium’s prestige was ...
Bill Mazeroski, the Hall of Fame second baseman who won eight Gold Glove awards for his steady work in the field and the ...
The "Star Trek" franchise owes a debt to some of the great Western TV shows of yesteryear. When Gene Roddenberry pitched the ...
During his run as state surgeon general of Louisiana, he ordered health officials to stop promoting mass vaccination.
If it weren't for these two, Star Trek would never have hit the airwaves.
rock songs that enraged censors and challenged authority – banned, blacklisted, or silenced, yet defiantly unforgettable ...
A school magazine from the 1960s captures the happy school life of Suzanne, Susan and Lindy, three girls whose shocking fates would make international headlines. Years later one finally won justice.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader who was once a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died Tuesday. He was 84. Jackson had been receiving around-the-clock care at home and was ...
In 1968, the U.S. had its third gold medalist in the women's figure skating singles event in the past four Winter Olympics.
I wrote a book about Jesse Jackson, and we became friends. The cynics didn’t get how he fused moral simplicity and political ...