Gerry Berry was a marine helicopter pilot during the fall of Saigon in 1975.Â
In 1975 Richard Armitage was a special forces advisor in Saigon.Â
Women couldn’t run for elected office in Kansas, but Mary Elizabeth Lease was a political force to be reckoned with.
Watch the opening scene of The Gilded Age.
Henry George’s message about the haves and the have nots helped ignite a movement that swept the nation.
Jack Miley, sports columnist for the New York Daily News, admitted he underestimated Max Schmeling in 1936.
Champion boxers were some of the best paid athletes in the world — but the businessmen behind the bouts saw the greatest profits.
Boxing manager Joe Jacobs was an unstoppable public relations dynamo.
Roxborough appeared to Louis as "well encased in dignity and legitimacy." Roxborough saw in Louis the chance to make big money.
Read the stories of the 1936 and 1938 Louis–Schmeling fights, as recalled by the boxers in their autobiographies.
From Jack Johnson to Joe Louis, black athletes challenged the color line in America.
A lightweight at 135 pounds, Blackburn fought well against larger men.
