There I am, stepping to music and sweating alongside a dozen-and-a-half other senior women in my aerobics class, when suddenly "Unchained Melody" blats out over...
Two generations ago, infantile paralysis was the scariest disease in the United States. Then a tough minded, tough talking Australian nurse named Sister Elizabeth Kenny...
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, social workers reported that destitute Americans would sooner have given up iceboxes, furniture, beds, and bathtubs than part...