A new book explores the little-known life and career of Hans Sloane, whose collections led to the founding of the British Museum
In a country where more than 37 million people speak Spanish, stations like Telemundo reach under-served communities
Nineteenth-century urbanization unleashed the nation's anarchic spirits, turning holiday mischief into mayhem
Declassified records and journals to be released in coming decades will shed new light on pivotal 20th-century figures and events
There are unlikely to be any bombshells, and it’ll be months or years before historians can draw conclusions from the new files
In a startling parallel to today’s opioid crisis, the drugs were liberally—and legally—prescribed despite little information on safety
This Rock ’n’ Roll maverick was a true New Orleans original
The 170,000 pages found might be “the most important collection of Jewish archives since the Dead Sea Scrolls.”
Mamie Phipps Clark came up with the oft-cited "doll test" and provided expert testimony in Brown v. Board of Education
A new book explores the deadly and nefarious plots designed by Hitler and his supporters
Visit these preserved settlement sites
A deep dive into an obscure archive reveals that the Palm Beach property had once been envisioned as a "Winter White House"
With Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the National Museum of Natural History, we look at the past, present and future of the flu
The notables who recovered from the pandemic included a pioneer of American animation, world-famous artists and two U.S. presidents
The toll of history’s worst epidemic surpasses all the military deaths in World War I and World War II combined. And it may have begun in the United States
Surprisingly few U.S. writers touched by the 1918 pandemic wrote about it. But flu lit appears more popular today than ever
The peace agreement set up reservations for the tribe—only to break that agreement in the following decades
President Grant’s signature on the 15th Amendment was a bold stroke for equality
Some of the most breathtaking photos of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens were taken by a graduate student camped nearby
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