Novels like Passing by Nella Larsen, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and the poetry of Langston Hughes were all written during this period and have become important pieces of the American literary canon. Still, when...

What is unique about this map and what does it represent? What was the goal behind this map?<br/>
Maps That Made America, Part 2

A WOMAN whose life was torn apart by the killing of her father as a child says she finally feels peace after helping to bring the perpetrator to justice. Joselyn Martinez was just nine on November 22 1986 when her father was shot outside...

The story of transgender activist, Marsha P. Johnson, who dedicated her life to LGBTQ+ rights.

In the Bronx, the Prison Writes program provides therapeutic writing workshops for people trying to get back on their feet after incarceration. Humberto, 16, is trying to get back into school after a period in Rikers Island prison....

Mary Carson, born into the wealthy Breckinridge family in 1881, changed the face of US midwifery. This is her story.

Any world religion textbook will include Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. But how many include indigenous religions? What even are indigenous religions and how do we study them?

America has always been captivated by crime and the sharp-dressed, trigger happy men who dominate the underworld. But one story remains criminally neglected, that of gambling kingpin Stephanie St. Clair, aka Madame Queenie - the Robin...

How did a hardworking nurse from New York City invent the world's first home security system? When a burglar tried to break into her apartment in the 1960s, this kickass crimefighter went where no-one had gone before.

After 14 months of deliberation, Amazon announced that New York and Virginia are their final choice for the location of their new offices.

The windstalk is a concept design by New York design firm Atelier DNA as a possible clean energy generation project for Abu Dhabi's Masdar City. The proposed windstalk farm would consists of more than one thousand 180-foot-tall carbon...

How two wives saved New Amsterdam from total destruction by English invaders through the power of negotiation.

The NYPD launched its Unmanned Aircraft System program consisting of 14 drones and a group of licensed officials.

The American Revolution (Part 2)

What did the British do when they took over what is now New York City? How did wall street get its name?<br/>
Maps That Made America, Part 3

Growing up in America I always identified myself as “Half Polish”, this was a normal part of my identity as my Great Grandmother sent packages containing my childhood clothing to relatives in Poland. When she passed away the contact...

The American Revolution (Part 1)

The first mass-produced car in America was basically a lawnmower with leather trim, but it was a start, right? This is the story of Mary Anderson and the Windshield Wiper - an invention that happened by a stroke of fate!

Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating partner countries abroad. Episodes are produced...

Vincent van Gogh was a largely self-taught artist who didn’t pick up a paintbrush until he was 30 years old.



Just seven years later, he would

be dead.

It was really his last four years where he developed the...

We’re often taught that it was the ancient Greeks who invented our democracy. What they forget to mention is the group of Native Americans who helped showed us the way.

MOT 1937: NEW YORK CITY: XWS (POV Boat) Lower Manhattan w/ Upper New York Bay FG. HA WS Street bordering park, double-decker bus FG. STREET SCENE: People in coats, hats walking sidewalk, crossing street.

By showing people that art can be used to express what we feel, rather than what we see, Abstract Expressionism changed how we define what art is.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Tragedy took the lives of 146 workers – and exposed a shocking lack of workplace health and safety laws in New York State.