Chosen by Kennedy to be the first Black astronaut, blocked in 1963 — he answered in bronze, then reached space at 90.

A narrative biography of Ida Tarbell, the journalist from Pennsylvania’s oil region whose documented history of Standard Oil helped break the most powerful monopoly on earth — and …

The most powerful man in America kept giving power back — a republic-defining restraint built on the labor of the people he enslaved.

The light bulb was the least of it: Edison’s real invention was the invention factory, where research, patents, and publicity ran as one industrial machine.

Abolitionist John Brown forced the United States toward a reckoning over slavery through faith, violence, and martyrdom.