Victoria Cooney

Iowa reporters bring news of the front to audiences at home during World War II.

The stories on stage reflect the range of veterans’ experiences as well as their similarities.

Iowa

The darling of the silent-film industry led the way on many cinematic innovations of the era.

One a patriot, one a spy—two wives of the American Revolution.

For nineteenth-century sailor, tattoos both smoothed the way and caused alarm.

An Alabama girl married into a revolution in Costa Rica.

A play in Pennsylvania asks, "what is authentic?"

Michigan prison gets artistic makeover

"Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints," featuring the art of Brazil is on exhibit in Detroit.