Erika and Helmut Simon stumbled upon a frozen body deep in the Otztal Alps, little did they know it belonged to one of the oldest preserved corpses
A new biography reveals new details about the history of the boxer—“a heavyweight of contradictions”
The fiery progressive Robert La Follette responded with a classic defense of free speech in wartime
Alone in his stand, Weldon Heyburn despised that Robert E. Lee would be memorialized with a statue in the U.S. Capitol
How William H.H. Murray accidental bestseller launched the country's first outdoor craze
The editors of the new book, “Unseen” talk about recognizing the paper of record’s biases
The material is expected to spark new interest in the 35th president's death
When the British army held Francis Scott Key captive aboard one of their warships during the Battle of Baltimore, his stay inspired enemy's patriotic song
On September 8th, 1974, famous daredevil Evel Knievel climbed into a steam-powered rocket and attempted to blast across Idaho's Snake River Canyon
An epic natural disaster restored the forest of an earlier America
During World War I, the scientist invented a mobile x-ray unit, called a "Little Curie," and trained 150 women to operate it
On the 133rd anniversary of her birth, "ER"'s influence lives on
The iconic Round Barn was destroyed at Fountaingrove, once home to a Utopian community and one of America’s first Japanese immigrants
A show opening at the Sackler dramatizes the various meanings that the people of Egypt once associated with cats
An iconic Hamburg building, built by Jews and now a chocolate museum, once housed the distributors of one of Nazi Germany's most gruesome inventions
“Veep” creator Armando Iannucci’s upcoming dark comedy pulls from the stranger-than-fiction real-life events surrounding Stalin’s death
When America’s first aerial cameraman met an infamous spirit photographer, the chemistry was explosive
The 1809 treaty that fueled Tecumseh’s war on whites at the Battle of Tippecanoe is on view at the American Indian Museum
What really happened in the trial featured in the new biopic of future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
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