The peephole would never be the same again Detail of Marie Van Brittan Brown’s original design for a home security system. (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office)

Varian Fry is often called the ‘American Schindler’ Varian Fry with André Breton, André Masson and Breton’s wife Jacqueline (right to left) in his office

Police deputizing 5,000—mostly white—citizens made it much worse National Guardsmen were deployed to Avondale on the third day of rioting. Of the 159 American riots that

You can thank her for your retirement benefits An applicant for social security retirement insurance in California, May 2, 1938. (AP) In the early 1930s, homeless

The shipbuilding town of Vanport — home to most of Oregon’s blacks — was washed away in an afternoon Ten thousand houses in 110 days, and then they were gone

The new book ‘30 Days a Black Man’ looks back at his story Ray Sprigle passed as a black man because wishing to do so was

She was supposed to donate them, but that didn’t exactly happen Nancy Reagan sightseeing during the 1988 Moscow Summit. (Diana Walker/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images) It used

In 1967, newspapers only ran black-and-white pictures Detroit in the Summer of 1967. (AP) The riots of 1967 are a black-and-white story in our minds. In