THE REPORTER AND THE "GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI"

When Jerry Mitchell dug into “cold cases,” justice delayed was no longer denied.

HEROESThe AtticOctober 24, 2024Jerry Mitchell, Jackson Clarion-Ledger, Mississippi Burning, Goodman Schwerner Cheney, Freedom Summer, Civil Rights Movement, Byron De La Beckwith, Edgar Ray Killen Comments

THE SAY-HEY KID AND "THE CATCH"

Seventy years ago, Willie Mays made a play they're still talking about.

HEROESThe AtticSeptember 17, 2024Willie Mays, The Catch, 1954 world series, Baseball greats, Baseball's Greatest Moments Comments

"THE GIFT" AND AMERICAN GIVING

The hardscrabble Osceola McCarty gave her life savings to young students. But was she the only "better angel?"

HEROESThe AtticSeptember 12, 2024Osceola McCarty, Philanthropy, Giving, American generosity Comments

THE MAN WHO GREENED AMERICA

Central Park. Prospect Park. The Capitol grounds. Emerald necklaces. . . Frederick Law Olmsted spread greenery coast-to-coast.

HEROES, BUILDERSThe AtticAugust 8, 2024Frederick Law Olmsted, Central Park, New York City, Landscape architecture, environmental movement Comments

MISSISSIPPI'S MOSES

As Freedom Summer’s 60th approaches, its architect stirs memories and awe.

HEROESThe AtticJune 12, 2024Bob Moses, Civil Rights Movement, Freedom Summer, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Mississippi, Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney Comments

THE MONUMENT TO HOPE

In the Massachusetts 54th, democracy and racial equality found new champions and a startling memorial.

HEROESThe AtticMay 23, 2024Shaw memorial, 54th Massachusetts, Memorial Day, Decoration Day, Shaw 54th memorial Comments

MIND IN A MAN'S WORLD -- MARGARET FULLER

In her brief, brilliant life, Margaret Fuller was the heart and mind of women’s equality

HEROESThe AtticApril 24, 2024Margaret Fuller, Transcendentalism, The Dial, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau, Henry David Thoreau, Emerson Comment

OL' DIZ -- AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL

His English was fast and loose but his fastball was faster. There was only one Dizzy Dean.

HEROESThe AtticMarch 27, 2024Dizzy Dean, St. Louis Cardinals, Baseball, Gashouse Gang, The Depression Comments

THE WELL-BEHAVED WOMAN BEHIND 'WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN...'

How an unknown grad student, mother of five, became a historian, an inspiration, a meme.

HEROESBruce WatsonMarch 6, 2024Well-behaved women, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale, Women's History, Women's History Month, Colonial history, American history Comments

THE WOMAN WHO SAID 'NO!' TO NIXON

While the nation watched, Barbara Jordan stepped out of the Jim Crow past to defend democracy.

HEROESThe AtticFebruary 21, 2024Barbara Jordan, U.S. Congress, Watergate, House Judiciary Committee, Nixon impeachment, Richard Nixon Comments

GREAT DAY IN HARLEM

Like the music it celebrated, the iconic photo of jazz greats was mostly improv.

HEROESThe AtticJanuary 31, 2024A Great day in Harlem, Jaz, Jazz history, Ken Burns' Jazz, Harlem, Black history, Black History Month Comments

SUPERSISTERS! COLLECT 'EM ALL!

When a nine-year-old girl asked about trading cards, her mother and aunt got busy. And “Supersisters” went viral.

HEROESBruce WatsonJanuary 11, 2024Supersisters, SupersistersTM, Lois Rich, Women's history, Trading Cards, 1970s, Women's culture, Great women Comments

THE EINSTEIN OF GREEN LIVING

Critics scoffed but Amory Lovins has stayed on “the soft path” to renewable energy.

HEROES, TEACHERS, TEACHERS & HEALERSThe AtticDecember 15, 2023Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute, RMI, Environment, Environmental Movement, Solar Energy Comments

PROJECT 562 -- REBIRTH OF NATIONS

Native-American portraits were stuck in the past. So Matika Wilbur set out to photograph all 562 nations.

HEROES, ART-ISHThe AtticOctober 3, 2023Project 562, Matika Wilbur, Native Americans, Native American photographs Comments

FREDERICK DOUGLASS' FOURTH

Once Frederick Douglass rose to speak, Independence Day no longer seemed so free.

History, HEROESThe AtticJune 29, 2023Frederick Douglass, What to the slave is the fourth of july, Fourth of July, Abolition, Slavery Comment

MARATHON WOMEN

Women couldn’t run 26 miles. Impossible. Then women jumped into the pack in Boston, and ran and ran. . .

HEROESThe AtticApril 6, 2023Katharine Switzer, Boston Marathon, 1967 Boston Marathon, Jock Semple, women's running Comment