Adelaide Wisdom Benjamin is one of the many heroes you will come to know through her own words in Expressions of America.

It was only in the wake of Executive Order 8802, and a presidential directive issued directly to the Corps, that the Marines began setting up a new segregated training facility for African American recruits at Montford Point, North Carolina. One of the first recruits was Edgar Cole.

In April 1945, fifty nations gathered in San Francisco, California and created The United Nations.

Major events are often rooted deeply in the past—the “long fuse” that leads to explosions.

Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had the most complex and historically significant friendship of the 20th century.