History

These events had historians stumped for years.

A long-forgotten note may hold the answer.

Fed up with their working conditions, the serfs rebelled en masse.

Learn more about the civil rights icon.

Ham the Astrochimp, as he came to be called, paved the way for human spaceflight.

These evening radio addresses revolutionized the relationship between the president and the American people.

These conflicts should be remembered.

Her many achievements include pioneering a new kind of investigative journalism.

Britain and France battled for world supremacy, drawing in numerous other nations.

These may be the strangest cases of claims to power.

Margaret Hamilton oversaw MIT's groundbreaking Software Engineering Division.

He wasn't exactly fearsome.

What would the world be like if these plots had worked?

The holiday spirit brought a ceasefire to the trenches.

This little-known aviation accident resulted in 14 deaths.

This terrifying wreck, and its cannibalistic aftermath, inspired Moby Dick.

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Read up on the surprise military strike that catapulted America into WWII.

The large flightless birds turned out to be a formidable enemy.

This WWII battle has been called one of the worst naval defeats in U.S. history.