On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the first nuclear bomb in New Mexico on what’s now the White Sands Missile Range. About 40 miles away from the Trinity test site, a group of girls at a ...

Eight-year-old girls at sleep-away camp, families crammed into recreational vehicles, local residents traveling to or from ...

Camp Mystic was the totemic rite of passage for girls from establishment families in the American South: Lyndon Johnson sent his daughters there, Laura Bush worked there as a counselor years before ...