Alcatraz Island, home to the nation’s most notorious pen, was the site of a crucial civil rights battle 50 years ago. Shutterstock Fifty years ago this November, a group of Native American ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner ...

In 1963, Attorney General Robert Kennedy announced Alcatraz would close. The island leapt back into headlines when Native American activists, protesting unjust treatment of native peoples ...