Ilana Trachtman’s documentary shows the ripple effects of the summer-long protest at Glen Echo Amusement Park.

There is yet another: a historical marker that has just been installed in an unusual place — at the merry-go-round on the Mall, not too far from the Lincoln Memorial. This plaque tells of the ...

At first glance, a merry-go-round that generates electricity appears to be a charming idea. But Empower Playgrounds President, Ben Markham, came up with the idea in 2006 during an 18-month stint ...

Their method requires some laboratory tools, like specialized lasers, but in many ways, it resembles spinning a playground merry-go-round or twisting a wrench. "Because STOVs are a new field ...

By Richard Sandomir Gerry Holzman, a master woodcarver who conceived, and toiled for 20 years to build, a merry-go-round that celebrated New York State with riding animals like a beaver ...

Ilana Trachtman excavates a powerful shard of D.C. social history in “Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round,” an illuminating chronicle of a germinal moment in civil rights history. In 1960 ...