12/30/2015 - 19:16
Candidates haggled over national security, labor and voting rights. A noted lawyer and veteran politician from New York vied for the presidency. And a socialist tossed his hat into the ring.
12/03/2015 - 18:41
Before the American Revolution, Henry Knox owned a bookstore. But in November 1775, as the Colonies rebelled against England, the newly minted military man set off to retrieve artillery George Washington needed to drive the British from Boston.
11/23/2015 - 05:00
The presidential turkey pardon is as much a part of Thanksgiving as cranberry sauce and Black Friday. But the pardoning ceremony took its place at the table more recently than you might think.
10/19/2015 - 08:35
The First Continental Congress, which began meeting in Philadelphia in 1774,
wasn’t the first congress to challenge British actions in the American Colonies. That distinction goes to the Stamp Act Congress, which met 250 years ago this month in New York City.
09/14/2015 - 15:32
Call Thomas Jefferson the nation's third president, a statesman, an intellectual and, most of all, author of the Declaration of Independence. But he was also a slave owner, and experts believe that he fathered the children of slave Sally Hemings.
09/09/2015 - 10:05
Baby boomers aren’t shy about being baby boomers. But as revealed by a new Pew Research Foundation survey, the much younger generation hasn't embraced the whole
millennial thing.
08/26/2015 - 10:09
Space has a way of bringing out the wackiness in a person, even if that person happens to be the world’s foremost authority on robotics or hold a Ph.D. in physics.
08/20/2015 - 20:37
As U.S. secretary of the interior under President Warren G. Harding, Albert Fall would have been relegated to the fine print of history if not for a dubious distinction -- the first American convicted of a felony committed while holding a Cabinet position.
08/17/2015 - 12:09
If not for his love life, many would have trouble remembering that the 29th president of the United States was an Ohioan named Warren G. Harding.
07/20/2015 - 20:00
Researchers studying images from NASA's New Horizons probe have spotted another mountain range on Pluto. Cue the office space nerds: What are they going to call it?
