History, examined beyond the frame.

Born in the Cherokee Nation in 1879, Will Rogers turned a roping act into a public voice that moved across stage, newspapers, movies and radio.

Orson Welles’s radio invasion frightened some listeners. The surviving letters, photographs and news reports tell a more complicated story than the familiar legend of national panic.

The 1920 election broadcast associated with KDKA joined engineering, newspaper reporting and a business plan to sell radio receivers.