‘Standing Knee Deep in a River (Dying of Thirst)’ is the ‘Gentle Giant’ of country music’s everyday spiritual reminder.

In ‘This Week in History,’ the last of NASA’s Mariner missions pursued the impossible task of reaching the elusive planet Mercury.

Two Southern women, decades apart, brought the Civil War to life in haunting fiction.

In this installment of ‘Profiles in History,’ we meet an Austrian artist who immigrated to America and founded one of the most influential political magazines.