Their skin was dark. Their languages were foreign. And their world views and spiritual beliefs were beyond most white men’s comprehension. | Continue reading
At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and | Continue reading
Much of the legacy of President George W. Bush is wrapped around the war on terror and military action in Iraq and Afghanistan, but Bush has probably done more than any other president to combat AIDS, particularly in Africa. | Continue reading
Historians offer up many explanations, including that the Revolutionary War general may have had some self-esteem issues as a child and young man. | Continue reading
Centralia, Pennsylvania was once a bustling mining center, but a hidden, underground fire has turned it into a smoldering ghost town. | Continue reading
Look back at the problem-plagued unveiling that park employees dubbed “Black Sunday.” | Continue reading
A Danish ambulance driver huddled over a Copenhagen phone book, circling Jewish names. As soon as he’d heard the news—that all of Denmark’s Jews would be | Continue reading
Every March 31, the U.S. Virgin Islands of Saint Thomas, Saint John and Saint Croix observe “Transfer Day” to commemorate the sale of the islands from Denmark | Continue reading
The United States’ invasion of Canada 200 years ago went awry from the start. | Continue reading
Waitlists, bombings and restrictive U.S. immigration policies thwarted their chances. | Continue reading
Before studies showed that cigarettes caused cancer, tobacco companies recruited the medical community for their ads. | Continue reading
On this day in 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower ends his presidential term by warning the nation about the increasing power of the military-industrial complex. His | Continue reading
The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in | Continue reading
Sex. Money. Class. You name the inferiority complex, and this thin-skinned and deeply insecure French leader had it. | Continue reading
Not until nearly three years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor did Japan adopt suicide aerial attacks as official military strategy. | Continue reading
The retail bonanza known as Black Friday is now an integral part of many Thanksgiving celebrations, but this holiday tradition has darker roots than you might imagine. | Continue reading
Did you know pizza took the United States by storm before it became popular in its native Italy? | Continue reading
The experiment of a 'continuous week' was shift work, on a colossal scale. And it failed. | Continue reading
“I held it up in the air and I said ‘Daddy, I found a sword!’" | Continue reading
From a Russian national treasure looted by the Nazis to a da Vinci painting that no one has ever seen, find out more about eight of art history’s missing masterworks. | Continue reading
So far, 22 grenades, mines or other explosives have been recovered from the muddy bottom of a drying-out river. | Continue reading
Are cats the purrfect spies? Turns out, not so much. | Continue reading
Computer programming used to be a ‘pink ghetto’—so it was underpaid and undervalued. | Continue reading
Alien insurance. A leopard-proof cage. And a heroin-addicted ape-man. These are just a few of the odd details behind the making of one of history's most revered movies. | Continue reading
Zora Neale Hurston’s searing book about the final survivor of the transatlantic slave trade, Cudjo Lewis, is being published nearly a century after it was written. | Continue reading
Some 260,000 people survived the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, but Japanese engineer Tsutomu Yamaguchi was one of the very few who endured the horror of both blasts and lived to the tell the tale. | Continue reading