Tejada recently spoke with High Country News about the contradictions of life in the Borderlands, the lessons of a less-militarized past, and the place that poetry and hope have in our current ...

As states consider loosening laws that regulate child labor, Lewis W. Hine's early 20th century photographs, which helped ...

Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first ...

I would say my top two (not including the Gershwin exhibit in the Library of Congress) were the National ... the Civil War, segregation, etc. — and still manages to leave you feeling hopeful ...

Mr. Trump instructed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds public broadcasters in the United States, to end ...

During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt created a tree army. Civilians planted trees, built dams, and transformed ...

Hotel magnate Conrad Hilton fulfilled his dream to purchase the Waldorf-Astoria in 1949. He called the luxury hotel on Park ...

Established by Congress in 1846 and based in Washington ... the nation’s oldest research archive, library and museum of its kind, I know how powerful institutions like this are in educating ...

(photo by Frances Benjamin Johnson/Library of Congress/Getty Images ... When people look back wistfully on segregation and talk about buying Black, here’s what I know: It’d be a lot easier ...

The CCC could focus on forestry, preventing soil erosion, flood control, and similar projects that would avoid financial loss, Roosevelt wrote to Congress in March 1933. "This is brought home by ...

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