03/03/2015 - 17:50
NASA is always celebrating an anniversary -- the Moon landing or the first rover on Mars or what have you. But this year marks an even more significant milestone: the agency's genesis a century ago.
03/02/2015 - 05:00
On March 5, 1770, British soldiers shot into a rowdy crowd and killed five colonists, a tragedy that became known as the Boston Massacre. The shooting has been studied and debated over and again in history books. But was it, strictly speaking, a massacre?
02/24/2015 - 11:00
We associate great success with prestigious colleges and universities. But did you know that 12 American presidents didn’t even get a college degree?
02/16/2015 - 14:00
Both Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy have some claim on the title "youngest president."
02/13/2015 - 16:16
At one point during the musical, 1776, John Adams sings to his wife, Abigail: "I am, as I ever was and ever shall be, yours, yours, yours, yours, yours..."
02/08/2015 - 20:00
In the war for American Independence a small band of colonists took on the British Empire.
01/22/2015 - 11:19
John Adams is remembered always as the strident patriot who pushed for American independence. But he was also tough and temperamental.
01/19/2015 - 20:50
When Rosanne Cash graduated from high school in 1973 and joined her father on the road for the first time, Johnny Cash made a list of 100 essential country songs she should learn. One of them was
“The Battle of New Orleans.”
01/12/2015 - 08:05
Most people with a modest knowledge of American history know that St. Augustine, founded in 1565, is the first permanent European settlement in what is now the continental United States.
01/05/2015 - 06:14
Virginia says it is the mother of presidents.
Ohio says
it is the mother of presidents. So which of these proud parents has the facts to back up the brag?