On the morning of August 20, 2007, a devastating fire broke out on China Airlines Flight 120 which had just landed in Naha airport
Released 50 years ago, the infamous report found that poverty and institutional racism were driving inner-city violence
Remembering the aspirations, struggles and accomplishments of women who served a century ago
For use in the classroom or your community, a list of lesson plans and other teaching materials on women's history in America
By drawing out hidden connections, Tilly Edinger joined the fields of geology and neurology
Collecting the stories of women who forever changed the course of the American story
The brilliant female codebreakers of WWII were forgotten to history, but would that have happened had they been recognized with the same fervor as men?
On May 4, 1961, a bus carrying black and white anti-segregation activists called the Freedom Riders rolled into Alabama and was immediately attacked
"America's Sweethearts" are as dedicated to social service as they are to the Dallas Cowboys
How filmmaker Alex Gibney brought a documentarian’s eye to the story of the 9/11 attacks
By identifying the first pulsars, Jocelyn Bell Burnell set the stage for discoveries in black holes and gravitational waves
When a language is strongly gendered, it can raise all sorts of challenges to a society that’s increasingly accepting of a wide spectrum of identities
In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy led a march through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama
Seventy-five years ago, in Operation Gunnerside, a stealthy group of commandos took out a crucial Nazi chemical plant
Specialists in WWII art loss and restitution discuss provenance research
When the 17th president was accused of high crimes and misdemeanors in 1868, the wild trial nearly reignited the Civil War
By 1965, the U.S. initiated a military deployment, Operation Rolling Thunder, to help South Vietnam defend its independence
During the Civil War, the jails that held the enslaved imprisoned Confederate soldiers. After, they became rallying points for a newly empowered community
In early 1898, the USS Maine sailed into Havana harbor as a show of support for the Cuban revolutionaries
A Smithsonian Channel film, "The Lost Tapes," challenges misconceptions about the charismatic leader
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