History

"It would be definitely a bucket list of mine to get to visit all of them in my lifetime," said Annilee Waterman, a residential designer in Dallas.

The 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act made it illegal to discriminate against applicants based on sex or marital status.

A number of events important to the Civil Rights Movement — from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech to Emmett Till's murder — took place on Aug. 28.

Special correspondent Lee Hawkins shares his experience finding new family with online genetics tests — and reconciling fraught history.

Rising costs have long been a concern for Americans. What's changed is how the government intervenes in prices, economist Carola Binder writes.

"Part of the reason they've succeeded this long is that they work fine," says Jordan Frith, a Clemson professor and author of "Barcode."

When Queen Nefertiti's bust was revealed to the world in 1920's, she caused a commotion in the fashion and beauty industry. "You would see hair salons, for example, in America have replicas of her bust in their windows," said journalist and author Zahra Hankir.

A conversation about the life and legacy of economist Milton Friedman with historian Jennifer Burns.

The first Labor Day parade took place in 1882. Historian Allyson Brantley says there are notable parallels between that moment and today.

"The first digital use of the transistor for consumers was in a calculator," says Rick Bensene, curator of the Old Calculator Web Museum.