Historian Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts how he came to discover the real John Henry, an African-American railroad worker who became a legend in the famous song

The song "John Henry," perhaps America's greatest folk ballad, is about an African-American steel driver who raced and beat a steam drill, dying "with his hamme

In Experiments in Democracy, theatre historians explore the ways progressive artists sought to connect isolated racial and cultural groups in pursuit of a more

Love has ten thousand names and a million different faces. History will surely agree that America's most destructive contribution to 20th century living has bee