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In ‘This Week in History,’ with the Pacific Railroad completed, a Broadway theater manager schedules an impossible transcontinental trip.

From ‘Wings to Beauty,’ her cosmetics business brand, the famed aviatrix won the admiration and spurred on the imagination of many young women.

Independence Hall, a symbol of liberty throughout the world, was once fated for demolition.

This chocolatier made the world a better place.

In ‘This Week in History,’ the ‘Swedish Nightingale’ arrived in New York to begin her historic concert tour thanks to America’s ‘greatest showman.’

An underrated writer during the height of the Cold War presents a body of work that is very timely today.

In this installment of ‘Profiles in History,’ we meet a journalist who developed a biting sense of humor and used it to help the Union cause in the Civil War.

During the Victorian era, Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company was among America’s leading furniture and interior designers.