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In this installment of ‘History Off the Beaten Path,’ we see how an early 20th-century railroad stop in a remote Nevada town was reinvigorated 100 years later.

In this installment of When Character Counted, we visit the life of the man in black, who battled addiction while writing songs that made him a legend.

In ‘This Week in History,’ poor roads and a burgeoning automobile industry lead a group of industrialists to build a transcontinental highway.

In this installment of ‘Profiles in History,’ a former slave whose love of the flag and gallant Civil War actions earned him the military’s highest honor.

Elisha Otis invented the safety elevator.

In this installment of ‘Profiles in History,’ we meet a printer’s devil, who becomes a messenger of mirth, and establishes a new industry in humor.

Maybelle Carter’s unique guitar rhythm influenced musicians across genres.

The inventor of the first gas mask and three-way traffic signal had a passion for learning how things worked.

During World War II, Japanese people were introduced to the genre through the Armed Forces Radio Service.

In ‘This Week in History,’ when Alva Vanderbilt takes on the Astors to break into New York’s elite, it lays the groundwork for a much larger societal battle.