In eight years, the soccer tournament will come to the U.S. just as we mark a major anniversary, providing an opportunity that can't be missed
Powell’s foresight might have prevented the 1930s dust bowl and perhaps, today’s water scarcities
With heavy fog and windy conditions, sailing into San Francisco Bay has long been a hazardous affair. Then, in 1870, things got a lot safer
On Coolidge’s would-be 146th birthday, celebrate with some little-known facts about our 30th President
By bussing black kids from Hartford to the shore, Ned Coll took a stand against the bigotry of “armchair liberals”
Mildred Wirt Benson helped invent the fictional teen sleuth who became a generational role model
It's August 26, 1968, and the Democratic National Convention is about to kick off in Chicago. In the background, scenes of turbulence and unrest
The gooey snack became popular thanks to technological advances of the Industrial Revolution, which brought cheap sweets to the masses
A new Smithsonian exhibition examines the global context that bolstered the colonists’ fight for independence
Disbanded 700 years ago, the most famous of the medieval Christian orders is undergoing a 21st century revival
A strange and bittersweet ballad of kidnapping, stolen identity and unlikely stardom
Welcome to the new Mt. Everest of surfing, a notoriously dangerous break off the coast of Portugal
For centuries, the people of the mountain village of Chambon-sur-Lignon have opened their arms to the world’s displaced
From the American West to the Middle East, the powerless face stark choices when confronted by the powerful
As the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria approaches, Puerto Ricans feel not only devastated but abandoned
In our chaotic era, there are outcasts—and people who take them in
The new series about 1970s British MP Jeremy Thorpe traces his rise to power, then dramatic fall, complete with charges of a conspiracy to murder
Hopes for a Cold War détente were sky high when the first American and Soviet flights took off 50 years ago
Forty years ago, preservationists—including a former First Lady—fought to maintain the integrity of New York City’s historic railway station
The National Museum of the American Indian has reached a final decision on which design to implement
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