• Loosen up!

    The world is your stretching mat! Students at Sangamon State University touch their toes and reach for the sky in Marian Levin’s Movement Class.

  • A Taste Of Honey

    Shelagh Delaney was eighteen years old when she wrote A Taste of Honey (1958), a groundbreaking play that talked about the social issues of the British working class and feminist cultural movements.  

  • Live at Woodstock

    Peace and love, man.  What set out to be a 3 day music festival on a dairy farm in upstate New York turned into a defining event in rock and roll history.

  • Baby Bobby

    Bobby Fischer was just 13-years-old when he defeated American chess master Donald Byrne in 1956, marking the beginning of an extraordinary but difficult chess career.  

  • Marilyn Movie Maker

    In 1955, Peter Mangone was a big-eared, fourteen-year-old Bronx boy with a deep love for Marilyn Monroe.

  • Teenage Drag Queens

    httpv://youtu.be/x7Ylpm6o478

    “There’s glamour as a guy, there’s glamour as a girl, there’s glamour as a club kidgirl, as an elegant girl, any way I want, there’s always glamour.

  • Magdalene Laundries

    The Magdalene Laundries were convents for “fallen women” all over Britain, Europe, America, Canada and Australia — the first of which was founded in 1765 in Dublin, Ireland.

  • Boy Scout Jamboree

    These boots were made for walking! Two Venezuelan boy scouts departed Caracas on January 11, 1935 and walked 25 miles a day for two years in order to make it to the 1937 Boy Scout Jamboree in Washington DC. 

  • Puerto Rico in Illinois

    Students from Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School in Chicago, IL pose in front of a mural.