12/31/2014 - 10:00
You know all those reports of UFOs in the 1950s, and how it seemed as though the American public had gone a little star crazy? Well, we can thank the CIA for that.
12/22/2014 - 11:00
The image many Americans have of George Washington crossing the Delaware River on Dec. 25, 1776, comes from a painting that is wrong in many of the details, even if the author got the big picture exactly right.
12/22/2014 - 08:55
Here's something to chew on over your Christmas turkey: Is it possible that Clement Clarke Moore did not write the classic, A Visit from St. Nicholas?
12/11/2014 - 14:00
We think of the Colonials as civilized men and women who settled an untamed continent and made it a place of laws. But the frontier could be bloody and lawless – as evidenced by the story of the Paxton Boys.
11/25/2014 - 23:55
In the wake of protests and rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, the state’s governor called out the National Guard and, on Nov. 25, increased the number of guardsmen in the suburban city.
11/24/2014 - 10:16
The Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving of 1621 was not the first Thanksgiving in America. Others occurred far earlier. But the feast in Plymouth, Massachusetts, grew to surpass all others in popular culture. This is how it happened.
11/10/2014 - 10:00
The peace agreement that ended World War I didn’t last long, but literature produced by the war has endured. Here are 10 literary luminaries
who either fought in the war or were involved in war efforts.
11/04/2014 - 20:00
Analysts describe midterm elections in dramatic terms. Elections bring on seismic shifts or give parties a shellacking. But when it comes to real change, it's hard to top the midterms of 1914.
10/30/2014 - 05:00
When Amelia Earhart died – vanished, to be precise – 77 years ago while attempting to fly around the world, her fans grieved and wondered what had happened. Many are still wondering.
10/28/2014 - 07:00
When you read the words
radical fashion, you might think of college students with their low-slung jeans, spiked hair and multiple tattoos in mentionable and unmentionable places. But for all that, the new generation isn’t truly radical. To find radical, travel back a full century.