It was the first ever MTV Video Music Awards and Madonna was on the cusp of superstardom. As told by Marisha Ray.

Before Rosa Parks, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat. Her courage helped dismantle bus segregation in America.

Each Halloween, young people would vandalize Elizabeth Krebs’s town, inspiring her to plan a party that changed the way we celebrate the holiday forever.

After witnessing the horrors of the Crimean War firsthand, Florence Nightingale set out to transform the field of nursing.

A lawsuit over the right to teach evolution in Tennessee schools pits legal giants Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan against each other.

Ub Iwerks was Walt Disney’s animation partner, and happened to design a little character by the name of Mickey Mouse.

Featuring Amandla Stenberg. In the wake of Brown v. Board of Education, nine black high school students in Little Rock, Arkansas, fought with incredible bravery to get the education they were owed.

These stories about Sam Cooke, Dolly Parton, Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash show how rich the history of music is.

Mary Mallon spread typhoid wherever she went, and all because she wouldn’t wash her hands.