It is January of 1963 and London is enduring the harshest winter in 300 years. Roads are snow-packed and closed, milk is freezing in bottles left on porches, cars won’t start. But in the middle of all of this, life… Continue Reading
Everybody has something in their house they know they shouldn’t get rid of but they’re not sure quite what to do with. Maybe it’s a piece of furniture, a painting, a collection of books or an old, ornate Bible? It’s… Continue Reading
A young Vietnamese Woman searches for her Father, a US Soldier who left her behind at the end of the war. A Japanese woman searches for her childhood friend, one of the few white Americans who stood up for her… Continue Reading
When he died in 1849 at the age of forty, Edgar Allan Poe had already become something of a legend. Oh he was known for his writing, his stories and poems of the macabre, but he was just as well-known… Continue Reading
“I felt like I was hanging onto my honor by my fingernails, the whole time I was there.” This is the testimonial of former marine, John Musgraves, looking back on his time fighting in Vietnam. The Vietnam War is a… Continue Reading
Mary-Ann Mowbary is a woman in grief. She’s just lost four of her six children, and has returned to her mother’s home in Yorkshire with her husband, a dockside laborer. Soon, death will come for a fifth. Her husband, thinking… Continue Reading
It’s early 1962 and the sisters and midwives of Nonnatus House have just returned from their mission in South Africa. Well, most of them anyway. One of them has stayed behind for a while to help Hope Clinic get back… Continue Reading
There were not a lot of opportunities for unmarried women in Great Britain during the 1840’s, especially in the small Yorkshire town of Haworth. You could be a teacher, or a governess, but sometimes these situations, for various reasons, didn’t… Continue Reading
She was a dancer, a singer, an actress, a memoirist, a poet, an editor, and a director. And she’s the subject of the latest American Masters Special. Maya Angelou was a remarkable woman, and from her earliest days lived her… Continue Reading
The year is 1837. The King, after a long illness, is dead. The crown now passes to his niece, Alexandrina Victoria, who at only 18 years of age must take the reins of the world’s greatest empire. This is the… Continue Reading
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