The aspiring author knew Olivia Langdon was the one when he first laid eyes on a photograph of her
Being engaged carried some legal consequences until the news media got a hold of a sensational story
On March 27, 1977, at Los Rodeos airport in Tenerife, Pan Am Flight 1736 was sitting on the taxiway waiting to take off
The nation's first African-American presidency is marked by two prominent African-American portraitists
And how you can get some of the tender, marinated beef stateside
Americans Adam Rippon and Gus Kenworthy are the latest LGBTQ athletes to go for the gold
Curious minds will want to know that the blaze is lit not with matches or a lighter, but using a method that dates to Ancient Greece
Just because the country had voted to outlaw alcohol, didn't mean that people would comply. The legal case wasn't much helped by a quirky loophole
David Walker’s “Appeal” laid bare the ethical bankruptcy of slavery moreso than any other book of its time
Edith Roosevelt was a reluctant First Lady. Despite this, she had the presence and determination to bring about a major innovation to the White House
This Douglass Day, celebrate an icon’s bicentennial while helping to transcribe the nation’s black history
The shootings occurred two years before the deaths of students at Kent State University, but remain a little-known incident in the Civil Rights Movement
When physicist Hugh Bradner was brought to work on the Manhattan Project in 1943, the level of secrecy was unparalleled
You might be surprised to learn that this sport where women now shine was initially seen as solely the purview of male athletes
The skyscrapers of Manhattan needed a new, bolder type of construction worker
Contrary to the popular imagination, bearing arms on the frontier was a heavily regulated business
Dave Tatsuno was one of the 120,000 Japanese-Americans rounded up in the U.S. in 1942 and placed in an internment camp
This elegant scientific demonstration has been delighting everyday people for nearly 200 years
Fears of Zeppelins, rockets and drones have replaced the "celestial wonders" of ancient times
We don't know who Ben Franklin would root for, but we do know what he'd eat on Super Bowl Sunday
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