A civil rights leader in Harlem before entering politics, Powell was one of the most charismatic black leaders of the 20th century.
The black residents of Tulsa relive their community's remarkable rise and tragic decline.
America's first First Lady defined the role of the President's wife and in the process changed the face of the American presidency.
The story of the dramatic post-World War II tribunal that brought Nazi leaders to justice and defines trial procedure for state criminals to this day.
Today one of the most-recognized figures in American literary history, poet Walt Whitman was denounced by critics in his own time.
Head of the most powerful family in America, billionaire John D. Rockefeller's vast philanthropy changed his family's reputation.
The last surviving member of a California Indian tribe became a sensation in 1911.