At the end of the 19th century, “Professor” Henry C. Friend claimed to have a revolutionary process that used electricity to refine sugar—only he wasn’t a professor, and the process was a sham. A close-up of the notorious con man whose sweet nothings swindled investors out of millions
Photographs of the real people in the Hatfield and the McCoy families, whose famously violent 19th century feud has shaped perceptions of Appalachian life.
Jimi Hendrix’s Star-Spangled Banner brought the sounds of Vietnam to the crowd at Woodstock. But he wasn’t the only musician to reimagine the national anthem during a time of war.
Thousands of women began their careers at NASA as computers, before the advent of electronic machines. A diverse and potent force in space exploration, their calculations were ultimately responsible for sending astronauts to the moon.
