Through the Mill
Because of a Lewis Hine photograph, Addie Card became the poster child of child labor. But what became of Addie Card?
September 2006 |
By Elizabeth Winthrop
Fearing the Worst
A church is bombed. A daughter is missing. A rediscovered photograph recalls one of the most heart-wrenching episodes of the civil rights era.
May 2006 |
By Diane McWhorter
35 Who Made a Difference: Robert Moses
A former civil rights activist revolutionizes the teaching of mathematics
November 01, 2005 |
By Neil Henry
Broad Shoulders
When union leader Cesar Chavez organized the nation's farmworkers, he launched a movement that changed history
October 2005 |
By Owen Edwards
Just What the Doctor Ordered
During Prohibition, an odd alliance of special interests argued beer was vital medicine
April 2005 |
By Beverly Gage
The Old Ballgames
Civil rights chronicler Ernest Withers also photographed the glories of black baseball, including pioneering big leaguer Jackie Robinson
April 2005 |
By Carolyn Kleiner Butler
Down In Mississippi
The shooting of protester James Meredith 38 years ago, searingly documented by a rookie photographer, galvanized the civil rights movement
February 2005 |
By Carolyn Kleiner Butler
![As many as 150,000 slaves may have gained freedom (as depicted in 1863). "We will probably never know [the total]," says historian James O. Horton. "Part of the reason is that the underground was so successful: it kept its secrets well."](http://media.smithsonianmag.com/images/200*345/free_main.jpg)
Free at Last
A new museum celebrates the Underground Railroad, the secret network of people who bravely led slaves to liberty before the Civil War
December 2004 |
By Fergus M. Bordewich
Off the Beaten Track
During a civil rights march in 1965, photographer Bruce Davidson left the highway to focus on a single Alabama sharecropper and her nine children
June 2004 |
By Paul Maliszewski
On Clipped Wings
As America's first black military pilots, Tuskegee airmen faced a battle against racism
May 2004 |
By Keith Weldon Medley
Digging into a Historic Rivalry
As archaeologists unearth a secret slave passageway used by abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens, scholars reevaluate his reputation and that of his neighbors and nemesis, James Buchanan
February 2004 |
By Fergus M. Bordewich
Beach Lady
MaVynee Betsch wants to memorialize a haven for African-Americans in the time of Jim Crow
June 2003 |
By Russ Rymer
