"The Four"
by Joshua Zeitz

In the 1950s President Eisenhower appointed four white justices to a federal circuit court in the Deep South. To everyone’s surprise, these men destroyed Jim Crow with their rulings from the bench.

"Make A Joyful Noise"
By Elizabeth Hoover

What could a group of African-Americans from a small town in Alabama have in common with Scottish residents of an island in the Outer Hebrides? A rare style of singing hymns that has its roots in both cultures.

"Death of A Slave Captain"
By Tom Huntington

No slaver had ever been executed - until Nathaniel Gordon in ....