It was while serving as a prison that Alcatraz became a symbol of America’s dark side, though most of the stories about the island are more fiction than fact. How then did Alcatraz become an ...

Months into the Occupation, a visitor arrived on Alcatraz Island. Chosen by the elders to reveal the traditional wisdom and prophecies of the Hopi Nation, Thomas Banyacya had come to bear witness to a ...

After navigating a series of what he described as “government hurdles,” Goodman got the green light to plant the flowers in ...

A new study has found US Civil War-era tunnels and buildings buried beneath the famed Alcatraz island prison in San Francisco, California. Historians had long-suspected that the notorious federal ...

Sprawled across 25,000 square feet of space, the museum is designed to look like a a blend of Alcatraz Island prison and the Tennessee state prison. It includes 100-plus interactive exhibits ...