His knack for physical comedy warmed the hearts of generations of viewers.

Celebrate the strategies and tactics of the movement in a new interactive experience.  

On November 14, 1960, a 6-year-old girl walked into William J. Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. That seemingly mundane moment would shake the community and change the city forever.

Art Historian Carmenita Higginbotham explains Snow White as a reflection of American women during the Great Depression.

Historian and biographer of the Freedom Riders remembers the civil rights icon.

DYK: No one had ever picketed the White House before suffragists thought to do it? See the fight for women’s suffrage like you’ve never seen it before—in full color

On March 4, 1917, the 65th Congress convened, with one major difference: the very first congresswoman.

His research — on Adams, Truman and so much more — was deep, his writing was lively, and his narrator’s voice in documentary films was familiar to millions.

On February 24, 1868, something extraordinary happened in the United States Congress.

Before Brown v. Board of Education, there was Briggs v. Elliot—the case that launched Thurgood Marshall’s fight to end segregation in America’s schools.

The city has produced some of the world's great jazz musicians, none more celebrated than Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong.

For two centuries, black women have linked their ballot access to the human rights of all.

Thousands of women began their careers at NASA as computers, before the advent of electronic machines. A diverse and potent force in space exploration, their calculations were ultimately responsible...

 In 1847 Douglass met the radical abolitionist John Brown. He was impressed by Brownís more militant stance against slavery and his willingness to take action.

The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota Sioux, the original occupants of the area when white settlers arrived. 

For many women, the 19th Amendment was only the beginning of a much longer fight.

Whether on the silver screen or the political stage, Reagan was durable, optimistic, American.

For two weeks in the summer of 1899, a union strike crippled the country’s most powerful publisher.

A descendant of John Ball, the medieval English preacher who led the first popular rebellion in England, George Washington led his own fight for independence in America.

On a June evening in 1790, Jefferson hosted a dinner party to broker a critical deal between Madison and Hamilton.  

By challenging conventional links between Black women’s lives and their art, Ella Fitzgerald made space for imagination, virtuosity, and play.

By challenging conventional links between Black women’s lives and their art, Ella Fitzgerald made space for imagination, virtuosity, and play.

US country music star Johnny Cash was well-known for his activism on prisoners' rights - but what impact did he actually have?

Kevin Kruse’s new book explores how “Christian America” was invented to fight FDR’s New Deal.

An in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in...

Watch a preview of the origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S. citizens.

On June 21, 1964, three young men disappeared near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi.