The abolitionist who rescued enslaved people via the Underground Railroad also led U.S. troops in a raid that freed hundreds during the Civil War Source

Their first-ever collaboration is an affecting mob epic of loyalty and corruption, about a hit man for a Philadelphia crime family and the fate of Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa Source

A new book about the rock and blues singer presents a portrait of a gifted, complex and challenging artist who became an iconic trailblazer during her 27 years. Anthony Mason talks with music journalist Holly George-Warren about her biography, “Janis: Her Life and Music.” Source

The beauty of Provincetown, Massachusetts inspired many works by one of the most renowned American artists of the 20th century: Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011). A series of works that the abstract expressionist painter created on Cape Cod is on view in an exhibit called “Abstract Climates,” at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, Long Island. Correspondent Rita Braver talked with co-curator Elizabeth Smith, and with the artist’s step-daughter, Lise Motherwell, about Frankenthaler’s unique style. Source

On October 20, 1882, the film and stage actress, the favorite comic foil of the Marx Brothers, was born Source

An exhibition of seaside-inspired works by the abstract expressionist painter evokes the magic of landscapes and the textures of a temporal experience Source

A “Sunday Morning” team faces a difficult challenge: Find their way out of a room before a bomb goes off! It’s just one example of the big business in which trapped people have fun trying to save themselves Source

President at the start of the Great Depression, he was an engineer and business magnate, hailed as a humanitarian who fed millions during World War I, and an innovator who introduced standardized traffic lights, electric light sockets, and milk bottles Source

Herbert Hoover had been president for less than a year when the Crash of 1929 initiated the Great Depression, an epochal event in American history that would place his name near the bottom of presidential rankings. But the engineer and business magnate, who made several fortunes in his 20s, is also remembered as a great humanitarian for feeding several million starving Belgians during World War I, and for introducing a variety of innovations in American life, from standardized traffic lights to milk cartons. Mo Rocca examines Hoover’s remarkable rise (from humble beginnings to the White House) and his remarkable fall. Source

“Sunday Morning” remembers an actor famed for playing the long-suffering TV husband of Bea Arthur in the ’70s sitcom “Maude,” and a fiery orator of the House and untiring champion of civil rights Source