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With personal accounts, Challenger: The Final Flight offers new insight into the Challenger disaster.

On September 16, 1620, the Pilgrims set sail from England... and ignited centuries of historical imagination.

These seven prisons were home to mobsters, assassins, and the dregs of history alike.

John Burns showed his commitment to the United States—and its union—until his final days.

The men who were the Harlem Hellfighters were brave, courageous, and true.

During a 1777 skirmish in Cooch’s Bridge, Delaware, General William Maxwell ordered the flag be raised.

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Make your home office part of history.

During the Battle of Villers-Bocage, tanks went head-to-head.

Fill up some home-schooling hours and delight the teen in your life.

The children's author's macabre sense of humor and appreciation of darkness were likely sharpened by his combat history.

Roman aqueducts, WWII shelters, art, and caches abound in the tunnels below the surface of Naples.

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Neither Snow Nor Rain shows how the constitutionally-created service stitches our vast culture together.

On its 100th anniversary, we revisit the coalitions built in search of women's suffrage, and the struggles that continued after the passing of the suffrage amendment.

See the changes wrought by a single century.

Much of mainland Asia in the 1930s faced an unappealing choice: Western imperialism or Japanese imperialism.

Though even they don't know the tomb's precise location, the Darkhad continue to keep their leader's final resting place a treasured secret.

After facing racism in America, Bullard made a home in France, where he became the first African American military pilot during World War I.

Pigs, buckets, and dogs were flash points for conflicts that could have been easily avoided.