An inventor's plans for traveling inside a giant bullet would have made a trip across the Bay a fast one
Scholar created a whole new way of looking at history, but found time to fight in two World Wars–latterly, aged 60, as a leader of the French Resistance
Military history, memoir, and even a novelized series make this list of can’t-miss books about the Great War
If an atomic bomb drops on your house, a civil defense official advises: "Get over it."
When the million-dollar movie comedian faced a manslaughter charge, the jury was indeed scandalized—at how his reputation had been trashed
A Jefferson expert provides a list of indispensable reads about the founding father
For five years, a popular comic strip gave us a preview of life in Suburbatopia
A bold vision for a propeller-driven train never quite got off the ground
Explosion on Black Tom Island packed the force of an earthquake. It took investigators years to determine that operatives working for Germany were to blame
Brought to Europe from the New World by Spanish explorers, the lowly potato gave rise to modern industrial agriculture
Following years of haggling over its provenance, a celebrated statue once identified as Aphrodite, has returned to Italy
As Union generals came and left, personalities clashed and Southern farmers set fire to their fields
Momentous or Merely Memorable
To every thing there is a season
The 70th anniversary of the completion of the South Dakota monument prompts a look back at what it took to create it
Some scientists are both great researchers and fine human beings. Ron Greeley was one of them
Henry Johnson suffered 21 wounds and rescued a soldier while repelling an enemy raid in the Argonne Forest in 1918 but died 11 years later a forgotten man
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