Watching Hitler rampage across Europe in 1940, two comics artists in New York City decided to take matters in their own hands. Jack Kirby and Joe Simon created Captain America.#ca...

When cops ran amok in Washington Square Park in April 1961, one of those they arrested was H. L. "Doc" Humes, novelist, inventor, and raconteur. He'd already been jailed recently for his outspoken support of the hepcat comedian Lord Buckley. He...

In the spring of 1961, responding to complaints from well-heeled homeowners around Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village, New York's Department of Parks and Recreation forbade young people from playing music around the park's turned-off f...

In the 1930s, the Lower East Side's Yip Harburg wrote the lyrics for two songs that bookended the Great Depression, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" and "Over the Rainbow."#thewizardofoz #overtherainbow #judygarland #yipharburg #brother...

During World War II, Walt Disney Studios produced many propaganda cartoons for the government, starring Donald Duck and other well-known characters. Their subjects ranged from the importance of paying your income tax to farting in Der Fuehrer's...