Sharecropping and Tenant Farming
The close of the Civil War ushered in profound changes in the character of American society. The North emerged from the war at the forefront of the process of recastin...
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In the middle of a nationwide manhunt during the most watched case of his career, Ed Brown sneaked away from detectives and reporters alike to teach Sunday school. The lesson: "Facing Opposition.""...
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American author, photographer, and film director (b. Nov. 30, 1912,
Fort Scott, Kan.
—d. March 7, 2006,
New York, N.Y.
), documented African American life. The son of a tenant farmer,
Park...
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Mass public shootings have become such a part of American life in recent decades that the most dramatic of them can be evoked from the nation's collective memory in a word or two: Luby's. Jonesboro...
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New Yorkers who missed The Quilts of Gee's Bend, an exhibition seen at the Whitney Museum of American Art during the winter of 2002-3, should have their collective knuckles soundly rapped. There ca...
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Roy Reiman started out as a farm boy. Now he's a philanthropist.In between, he built "the world's best publishing company you never heard of." That's how Reader's Digest then-CEO Thomas Ryder put i...
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Sharecropping and Tenant Farming
Affable sheriff leads slain Marine case
