The people of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, helped keep the Greenbrier resort's bunker—designed to hold the entirety of Congress—hidden from 1958 to 1992
In 1942, young Calvin Graham was decorated for valor in battle, before his worried mother learned of his whereabouts and revealed his secret to the Navy
The people of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, helped keep the Greenbrier resort's bunker—designed to hold the entirety of Congress—hidden from 1958 to 1992
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The story of the half-human, half-monkey god mirrors the journey of the protagonist in Patel's directorial debut
The new mini-series dramatizes the Villiers family’s scandalous rise to power at the court of England's James I
In 1780, astronomer Samuel Williams journeyed to British-controlled territory to view a total solar eclipse
The civilization developed the world’s first known tax system around 3000 B.C.E.
Books were rare and expensive in colonial America, but the founding father had an idea
In the late 17th century, Henry Avery—the subject of the first global manhunt—bribed his way into the Bahamas
The untold story of the Wide Awakes, the young Americans who took up the torch for their antislavery cause and stirred the nation
A new book shows how pioneering ballerinas captivated audiences and broke racial barriers
The tangy tale of how America’s children learned to squeeze life for all it’s worth
Between the 1920s and 1940s, wealthy young women signed up to run errands and carry messages for the Frontier Nursing Service, whose nurse-midwives provided care to patients in hard-to-reach areas
A lifelong passion for the national pastime led John Thorn to redefine the sport's relationship with statistics and reveal the truth behind its earliest days
The collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge is shocking—but not unprecedented
The Mediterranean capital city savors its connections to antiquity—while reappraising its past
How do filmmakers get period clothing to look the part? Inside the textile workshop where the past comes to life
Based in Greenwich Village, Heterodoxy had just one requirement for membership: An applicant must "not be orthodox in her opinion"
A new film dramatizes Shirley Chisholm's history-making bid to become the first Black woman president in 1972
Archaeological discoveries add 500 years to the history of Corinth's main harbor
Mabel Boll, a wealthy New York socialite, dreamed of making aviation history. But Earhart beat her to the finish line, completing the trans-Atlantic journey as a passenger in June 1928
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