1954

The titular year that was finds Brown vs. Board of Education coinciding with a season in which two of baseball’s best African-American players – Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants and Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians – dominated the major...

Copying Dickens

June 9: The first American book to be copyrighted — John Barry’s The Philadelphia Spelling Book, Arranged Upon a Plan Entirely New — was registered on this day in 1790.

Countdown

Alan Weisman’s Countdown asks — and potentially answers — the big question: how can we ensure that human life has a future on Earth?