From a rooftop vision to a counterculture bible, Stewart Brand sowed the seeds of several revolutions.
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You may think football a grim sport, but meet Alex Karras, "a clown with a fine sense of timing." And, BTW, Hitler's husband.
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No verse was too light, no rhyme was too impossible for Ogden Nash.
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“Network" did not predict populist anger -- it foresaw a network using anger to boost ratings. Sound familiar?
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“Every audience was his,” Kris Kristofferson said, but no one knew Steve Goodman’s sad secret.
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When the Northern groom married the Southern bride, the bond was love. And a fight for freedom.
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Fresh from the Hudson River School, Frederic Church stunned America with “Niagara,” then set his vision in stone.
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Students called Jaime Escalante “Kimo.” He called them his “burros.” But the key to his success was ganas — the drive to succeed. (As seen in “Stand and Deliver.”)
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Despite his glowing words, Jefferson thought blacks far from equal. Then a single letter took him to task.
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Strikeouts? Politics? Drugs? Transcendental Meditation? Ask the "Spaceman," still pitching in his late 60s. All for the love of the game.
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Track and field, golf, baseball, basketball. . . Was there anything Babe Didrikson didn’t play? Yes, she said. Dolls.
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Comedic couples come and go but there has never been a more perfect union of wit and mind than Nichols and May.
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Fast cameras caught split second action but “Doc” Edgerton’s strobe captured magic.
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In 1837, when mob violence raged, a young lawyer rose to defend the rule of law. He spoke not to his time but for all time.
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When she proposed cooperation as the source of evolution, her research was called “crap.” But science soon proved Lynn Margulis’ radical theory.
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Roaming the West for three decades, Edward Curtis caught more than shadows. He caught the soul of proud nations.
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