05/28/2015 - 13:55
The victim suffered blows to the head. It was, investigators say, a case of murder -- 430,000 years ago.
05/12/2015 - 10:22
One of the biggest events in world history, the American Revolution, rose in large measure from something very small: stamps.
05/04/2015 - 12:37
You didn’t have to be there. If you've ever studied the Vietnam War, you know about May 4, 1970, the day four college students were shot and killed by Ohio National Guardsmen at Kent State.
04/29/2015 - 08:00
Every four years on Jan. 20, a president takes the oath of office. But did you know that 226 years ago on
April 30, 1789, the first president, George Washington, was inaugurated?
04/13/2015 - 08:00
We know the stories of his hardscrabble childhood, his days as a young lawyer and his debates against political opponent Stephen Douglas, but it was during four packed years in the White House that Abraham Lincoln transformed the country.
03/27/2015 - 07:00
During a hearing March 24 before a congressional committee, the Secret Service, charged with protecting the president and his family, came under fire for missteps that could leave the White House vulnerable.
03/20/2015 - 07:41
What do you say about a public figure so beloved that his charisma remains evident today, 150 years after his death?
03/12/2015 - 13:51
Republican senators made news recently when they signed a letter warning Iranian leaders that any nuclear agreement reached with President Barack Obama could be swiftly undone.
03/10/2015 - 05:00
If you think about it (and you don’t have to think too hard) you can come up with the name of a relative who makes you wish you were part of another gene pool. But what if you were actually related to Genghis Khan?
03/07/2015 - 10:00
This weekend marked 50 years since the attack of participants in a voting rights protest in Selma, Alabama. But the fight for the right to vote started long before “Bloody Sunday” on March 7, 1965 -- and continues to this day.