City Stories

Blueprint illustration of three girls chasing a soccer ball across an open field, over the line: 700 girls played high school soccer in 1971 - today, four hundred thousand

Maui, Hawaii: Thirty-Seven Words — Patsy Mink a...

A Maui sugar-town girl was refused medical school in 1948 — then wrote the thirty-seven words of Title IX.

Maui, Hawaii: Thirty-Seven Words — Patsy Mink a...

A Maui sugar-town girl was refused medical school in 1948 — then wrote the thirty-seven words of Title IX.

Blueprint illustration of the Turtle, a barrel-shaped oak submarine with a brass conning crown and screw propeller, afloat on a Connecticut river mouth at sunrise, over the line: the first combat submarine began on this shore

Westbrook, Connecticut: The Turtle — The First ...

A Westbrook farm boy proved gunpowder burns underwater, then built the oak submarine that attacked a British flagship.

Westbrook, Connecticut: The Turtle — The First ...

A Westbrook farm boy proved gunpowder burns underwater, then built the oak submarine that attacked a British flagship.

Blueprint illustration of wild horses drinking from a winding creek on open prairie at sunrise — headline 'The settlers named the creeks for what was already running here. Mustang Branch, Mustang Creek, Peters Colony.'

Grand Prairie, Texas: Two Mustangs

How wild Spanish horses gave their name to a fighter built on the same Texas grass — and why the Navy trained pilots here, hundreds of miles from the sea.

Grand Prairie, Texas: Two Mustangs

How wild Spanish horses gave their name to a fighter built on the same Texas grass — and why the Navy trained pilots here, hundreds of miles from the sea.