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Roosevelt’s effort to help came at the end of the war, but still spared a thousand lives Morice Kamhi’s family was in Sarajevo when World War II broke out. The situation for Jewish families turned dire quickly. “First there was the yellow arm bands...

Immigrant families worked punishing hours in dilapidated apartments just to survive By 1900, the majority of New Yorkers — some 2.3 million people — lived in tenement apartments. The tenements were single-family buildings that had been cheaply converted...

Then the House Un-American Activities Committee came for her On September 22, 1950, musician Hazel Scott appeared in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. She’d been named as a subversive — another addition to a long list of those who...

Behind the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was a sisterhood Rosina Corrothers Tucker was born in 1881 in Washington, D.C. She married a preacher, and might have lived a quiet life, except the preacher died, and when she remarried it was to a man...

Mária Telkes lead the way in solar power development In 1948, Mária Telkes, the “Sun Queen,” built a house in Dover, Massachusetts. From the outside, it looked something like a regular home, only chopped in half to create a wedge shape, with 18 windows...