The Day Number 42 Changed Baseball Forever
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking Major League Baseball's color line and changing American history.
Tales from the year 1947
Eleven Minutes That Rebuilt a Continent
On June 5, 1947, George C. Marshall used a Harvard commencement speech to propose the largest economic aid program in history — the Marshall Plan.
Freedom at Midnight
On August 15, 1947, India became an independent nation, ending nearly two centuries of British colonial rule.