Several children of presidents met cruel fates in the first 150 years of our country's history
In 1955, the head of Civil Defense urged everyone to build an underground shelter "right now"
The Smithsonian keeps a most unusual artifact of hair clipped straight from the heads of presidents
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A grandson retraces adventurer Francis K.I. Baird's mysterious trek to a remote village near the India-Tibet border
Several women’s football leagues formed during the 20th century—one from the 1930s even became a national sensation—but they’re barely remembered today
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Deccan's intricate monuments, many of which are carved into cliffs, date back to the sixth century
Many ridiculed Secretary of State William Seward for purchasing Alaska from Russia in 1867. But he turned out to be quite the shrewd businessman.
Ancient astronomers were tracking planets using math believed to have first appeared in 14th-century Europe
The wealth and candid charisma of Sara Murphy meant she inspired and was admired by many an artist in 1920s Paris
A team of specialists had to get creative to mount a towering Titanosaur inside the American Museum of Natural History
Learn some little-known facts about this NYC landmark
In 1622, Avedis Zildjian, an Armenian metalworker in Turkey, melted a top-secret combination of metals to create the perfect cymbal, still in use today
As epic verse about the American past falls victim to modernism, a poet who is also a historian calls for a revival
On the 30th anniversary of the space shuttle tragedy, a look back at an ambitious plan to put the rest of us into orbit
Once locked in frozen Alaskan dirt, Iñupiat artifacts are being lost to the sea, sometimes faster than scientists can find them
Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and their friends traveled the country in Model Ts, creating the Great American road trip in the process
Long ignored by historians, the enslaved people of the White House are coming into focus through a new book by Jesse J. Holland
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Aaliya Sultana Babi is doing everything in her power to protect and promote India's most significant fossil park
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Born to a palace but stripped of his livelihood in the 1970s, Gaj Singh II created a new life dedicated to preserving royal Rajasthan
Even nomadic hunter-gatherers engaged in deliberate mass killings 10,000 years ago
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