04/17/2014 - 20:00
The first shot of the American Revolution wasn’t fired across Lexington Green when Colonial
minutemen and British soldiers faced off on the Massachusetts battlefield April 19, 1775.
04/08/2014 - 18:13
After President Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865, Mary Todd Lincoln received a letter from another widow who wanted to “express my deep and heartfelt sympathy with you under the shocking circumstances of your present dreadful misfortune.”
04/07/2014 - 20:00
During a press conference April 7, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower said that if one country became communist, others could follow. He described this as the falling domino principle.
03/31/2014 - 20:00
A common thread connects James Madison's Montpelier mansion in Virginia with the iconic Mark Twain home in Hartford, Conn., and the extraordinary Fallingwater, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
03/24/2014 - 10:10
At first glance, it looks to be part ostrich, part reptile and truly a face only a mother could love.
03/13/2014 - 14:00
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On St. Patrick’s Day, we’re all Irish, but some of us are Irish every other day of the year too. That includes more than half of the 44 men who have been president of the United States.
03/03/2014 - 17:34
New Orleans is the king of Mardi Gras in the U.S., but The Big Easy wasn’t the first place in the country to wear that crown.
02/26/2014 - 05:00
The Smithsonian and George Clooney tell the story of “Nazi thieves and the greatest treasure hunt in history.”
02/22/2014 - 05:00
George Washington’s birthday now gets lumped into the “Presidents Day” celebration on the third Monday in February. But Washington’s birth on Feb. 22, 1732, deserves to be commemorated as a separate and distinct event.
02/11/2014 - 12:14
Democrats, Republicans, lawyers, businessmen, an entrepreneurial businesswoman, a bricklayer, a lawman and Jameson Jenkins -- an African-American teamster deeply involved in the Underground Railroad -- called Abraham Lincoln's neighborhood home. Jenkins' home is no longer standing. But on Lincoln’s birthday, Feb. 12, 2008, the Jenkins lot was formally included into the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, according to the National Park Service.
