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My name is Alberta Martin and I was born in nineteen hundred and six, the first day of December. I'm the last Confederate widow living as far as anybody knows...

It was assumed many years ago, when you got old you lived with the family. And I guess there's something to be said for that.

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At one time Gibsonton, Florida was considered the oddest town in America.

Back in 1946, when the National Basketball League was known as the Basketball Association of America, all the players were white, many of them from poor, immigrant neighborhoods...

Ninety-four-year old Selma Koch runs one of New York's last old-style bra fitting shops. Walter Backerman still delivers seltzer along the same route worked by his father and grandfather...

In the early 1940s, the US Airforce faced a dilemma...

"I've been banished from the U.S., you know. Like they used to do in the medieval days. They used to ban fools."

A five-part radio series to mark the 10th anniversary of South Africa's first democratic election in April 1994...

21-year-old Laura Rothenberg has always tried to live a normal life...