A replica Viking vessel sailing the North Sea has helped archaeologists figure out what the stalwart Norsemen were really up to
A Look Back for Quebec City’s 400th
On the life and career of the 19th-century American landscape photographer who captured Yosemite in stereo
Flashpoints in Modern Lebanese History
Dating the Fossils and Artifacts that Mark the Great Human Migration
Debate rages over an Indonesian fossil find
Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world
The father of the conservation movement found his calling on a visit to the California wilderness
Momentous or Merely Memorable
What July 4th, 1754 reveals about George Washington’s survival skills
Filmmaker Katrina Browne discusses her family’s role in American slavery
One hundred fifty years ago, the U.S. Army marched into Utah prepared to battle Brigham Young and his Mormon militia
Momentous or Merely Memorable
Betty Ford had a what-the-hell moment—and an accomplice in photographer David Hume Kennerly
Too good to be true?
The Natural History Museum's quartz cranium highlights the epic silliness of the new Indiana Jones movie
An excerpt from Kenneth C. Davis's new book explains they arrived half a century before the Mayflower reached Plymouth Rock
A new survey upends the conventional wisdom about who counts in American history
Footprints at one of the nation's oldest—and most fought over—fossil beds offer new clues to how the behemoths lived
Momentous or Merely Memorable
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