Features

God in America | Article

Interview: Jeffrey Gurock

Gurock is a professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University and chair of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society. This is the edited transcript of an interview conducted on March 2, 2010.

God in America | Article

Interview: Muzammil Siddiqi

Imam Siddiqi is the chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America and the educational and religious director of the Islamic Society of Orange County, Calif. This is an edited transcript of an interview conducted on Jan. 13, 2010.

Chasing the Moon | Article

Wernher von Braun’s Record on Civil Rights

On June 8, 1965, one of 20th century America’s most notorious racists was stopped in his tracks by a former Nazi preaching racial integration.

The Telephone | Article

Forgotten Inventors

Inventions include the can opener, blue jeans, frisbee, feather duster, gas mask, oil burner and blood bank.

The Telephone | Timeline

Technology Timeline (1752-1990)

From Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod to the Hubble Space Telescope, this timeline covers some of America's technological innovations and inventions.

The Telephone | Article

Inventors

Find out more about Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray, Thomas Alva Edison and Thomas A. Watson

The Telephone | Article

The Development of the Telephone

Joseph Henry lays the groundwork for the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone and the telephone goes national.

Stephen Foster | Article

Blackface Minstrelsy

Learn more about the history and legacy of the blackface minstrel show in these excerpts of interviews with historians Dale Cockrell, Eric Lott, Deane Root, Fath Ruffins, and Josephine Wright, writers Ken Emerson and Mel Watkins, and performers Nanci Griffith and Thomas Hampson.