In the 1950s, both white and black fans flocked to Fats Domino concerts, integrating many venues for the first time. In 1956, four riots took place at Domino’s concerts. Saxophone great Herb Hardesty ...

This documentary shorts series from American Masters and Firelight Media follows emerging cultural icons on their journeys to becoming masters of their artistic disciplines. See how their work ...

See the growth of Loretta Lynn's career and family over the years in photos and timeline documenting her 50-plus years in country music.

In this excerpt from Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, Toni Morrison recalls the time a Black childhood friend, who was 11 at the time, told her that she had been praying for blue eyes for two years.

Writing “In the Time of the Butterflies,” Julia Alvarez felt a responsibility to bring the story of the assassination of the Mirabel sisters to life through her characters, stating that “a novel is ...

Recent scholarship has shed light on the secret collaboration between Wilder and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane on the “Little House” series. Rose encouraged her mother to write the books and worked ...

Little Richard first originated the famous “awop-bop-a-loo-mop alop-bam-boom” refrain in his hit song “Tutti Frutti” early in his career while performing at the Dew Drop Inn in New Orleans, Louisiana.

According to Amy Tan’s husband, Lou, it was “cluelessness at first sight.” At first, Tan wasn’t attracted to Lou because of his big muscles. “I always feel that the amount of muscle mass detracts from ...

The logs that Charles Ingalls used to build the little house on the prairie did not belong to him but to the Osage Indians, says Laura Ingalls Wilder biographer Caroline Fraser. It was an act of theft ...

The Sierra Club, a nonprofit nature conservation organization, has been at the forefront of battles to stop government-built dams in national parks. Led by David Brower from 1952 to 1969, the Sierra ...

The iconic anti-war song “Universal Soldier” was written with the question on Buffy Sainte-Marie’s mind: “Who’s responsible for war?” In Sainte-Marie’s frank answer, we all have an individual ...

Against the advice of his family and friends, Daniel Patrick Moynihan took a job with the Nixon administration as Richard Nixon’s domestic advisor. Although Moynihan didn’t necessarily agree with all ...