Q-90.1's A Moment In Time

When the Pullman Company responded to the depression of the 1890s by laying off workers and cutting wages, the workers went to the picket lines.

Alice Freeman Palmer became the first female college president in 1881.

In 1908, the Supreme Court upheld an Oregon law limiting a woman's workday to 10 hours.

Alessandro de' Medici's life offers a dramatic window into the Italian Renaissance. The history of his story reveals a great deal about modern narratives of race.

If the lyrics to Elvis' breakthrough hit "Hound Dog" seem a bit strange, they make more sense coming from the mouth of their original singer, Big Mama Thornton.

Paintings of wealthy women weren't unusual in the late 18th century, but paintings of wealthy black women with their white cousins were.

Toni Morrison's novels broke ground in their portrayal of African-American women, but her work received mixed reactions.

Ibn Rushd (also known as Averroes) was a medieval Muslim scholar who weighed in on the thorny question of how to reconcile faith with reason.

Al-Biruni went further than knowing the Earth was round, he used that information to measure the world.

The legacy of medieval Islamic scholars is found in our numbering system and mathematics.

The Medieval Islamic world witnessed one of the great flowerings of science and culture in human history.

In the decades before the Civil War, Michigan had a reputation of hostility toward slavery, but it was not a safe haven from slave catchers.

This Moment In Time takes us to the end of the Cold War with the history of one of the most popular video games of all time.

Nintendo faced an uphill battle when they brought their Famicom system over to the U.S. as the NES.

Wallace and William Goodridge were African American photographers whose work captured scenes of late 19th century Saginaw.

In May of 1893, a fire destroyed over 250 homes on Saginaw's east side.

Go back to 1837 to flip through the pages of Saginaw's first newspaper.

For 400 years or more after the Norman Conquest, England's kings were also lords of French lands.

Britain has never been isolated from the rest of Europe, particularly not in the Middle Ages.

The popular view of the Angles and Saxons is not supported by serious historians today.