People & Profiles

Profiles of people who shaped the places and institutions we cover.

People & Profiles

October 13, 2026

Booker T. Washington and the building of Tuskegee

People & Profiles

September 23, 2026

Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers’ union

Clara Barton photographed by Mathew Brady's studio

People & Profiles

September 7, 2026

Clara Barton, the Civil War nurse who founded...

People & Profiles

August 25, 2026

Andrew Carnegie: from bobbin boy to the man...

Fred Rogers with the Neighborhood Trolley

People & Profiles

August 8, 2026

Fred Rogers and the neighborhood he built on...

Official portrait of Justice Thurgood Marshall

People & Profiles

July 17, 2026

Thurgood Marshall, from Brown v. Board to the...

People & Profiles

July 2, 2026

Julius Rosenwald, the Sears president who helped build...

People & Profiles

June 16, 2026

Eleanor Roosevelt, from first lady to human rights...

Ida B. Wells photographed by Mary Garrity, about 1893

People & Profiles

May 26, 2026

Ida B. Wells, the journalist who documented lynching

People & Profiles

May 10, 2026

Rachel Carson and the book that changed how...

People & Profiles

April 23, 2026

Grace Hopper, the Navy officer who helped teach...

People & Profiles

March 28, 2026

People & Profiles

Booker T. Washington and the building of Tuskegee

Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers’ union

Clara Barton, the Civil War nurse who founded...

Andrew Carnegie: from bobbin boy to the man...

Fred Rogers and the neighborhood he built on...

Thurgood Marshall, from Brown v. Board to the...

Julius Rosenwald, the Sears president who helped build...

Eleanor Roosevelt, from first lady to human rights...

Ida B. Wells, the journalist who documented lynching

Rachel Carson and the book that changed how...

Grace Hopper, the Navy officer who helped teach...

George Washington Carver and his work at Tuskegee

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