Before Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball in 1947, black and white ballplayers had been playing against one another for decades-even, on rare occasions, playing with each other. Interracial contests t...

THEIR WORK ON THE FRONT LINES MADE HEADLINES In February 1943, a group of journalists—including a young wire service correspondent named Walter Cronkite and cub reporter Andy Rooney—clamored to fly along on a bombing raid over Nazi ...