Lillian Cunningham

We highlight seven people who changed the way our national park system was created and managed during the past 150 years as we celebrate the 54th Earth Day.

Lillian Cunningham of our ‘Field Trip’ podcast and travel reporter Natalie Compton will chat with readers about the national parks on Aug. 17 at 1 p.m. ET

In ’84, a former VP got the Democratic presidential nomination, faced a Republican incumbent and chose the first female running mate in U.S. history. Sound familiar? Go behind history in this special episode, featuring an interview with Walter Mondale.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt turns her attention to the nation’s first president with a new miniseries airing Presidents’ Day weekend

Loved the « Moonrise » podcast? Here’s a reading list for brushing up on space history.

Lyndon Johnson takes over the presidency following John F. Kennedy’s assassination, while rocketeer Sergei Korolev watches his fate rise and fall in the Soviet Union. In the 10th chapter of “Moonrise,” both countries hit setbacks in the race to the moon.

John F. Kennedy announces the moonshot. Then the doubts creep in …In the ninth chapter of “Moonrise,” old White House recordings reveal the president’s true views on the space race.

John F. Kennedy goes from senator to president. Space cowboys go from fiction to reality. And the United States chooses to go to the moon — in the eighth chapter of “Moonrise.”

Congress investigates the Sputnik launch. Lyndon Johnson seizes the spotlight. And President Eisenhower gets backed into a corner. In the seventh chapter of “Moonrise,” space gets political.

A top-secret memo in the Eisenhower administration. A plan to make space the new military high ground. And a Soviet beep heard from above. In the sixth chapter of “Moonrise,” humans launch the very first object into orbit.