Ruby

One southern woman’s haunting story recalls the works of Toni Morrison and Alice Walker.

Huxley, Science & the Royal Society

May 4: T. H. Huxley was born on this day in 1825. “Darwin’s Bulldog” was one of the Victorian era’s preeminent men of science, a respected social commentator, and a shaping influence on the Royal Society of London.

The Hoover File

May 2: J. Edgar Hoover died on this day in 1972, eight days away from his forty-eighth anniversary as director of the FBI.