Maria Cecilia Benavente escaped Tower Two barefoot; in shock, she held onto her sandals
This door is from a FDNY rescue pumper truck destroyed in the World Trade Center collapse. Squad 1 lost 12 members on September 11
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Mary and John Surratt helped John Wilkes Booth assassinate Abraham Lincoln and then paid the ultimate penalty for their actions
American Cities: Before and After
James Keily’s 1851 map of Washington shows a considerably smaller district, before the Potomac River was filled in to make way for monuments
American Cities: Before and After
California’s first state engineer, along with a team of surveyors, created this hand drawn map in 1880 to explore Los Angeles’ water resources
American Cities: Before and After
Bankers and speculators in the Colorado capital used this 1879 map to explore the Mile High City’s real estate potential
American Cities: Before and After
A look at a sailing chart of San Francisco and its bay, made in 1859 by the fledgling US Coast Survey
This 1868 pocket map of Chicago shows the city in full-blown expansion, a mere 3 years before the infamous blaze
Fifty years after the historic event, take a look at the lineup of speakers who addressed the crowd of 250,000 at the Lincoln Memorial
See the famous chef’s thought process as she wrote out precise measurements to bake one of her favorite breads
The nouveau riche of the Gilded Age had buckets of money but little social standing—until they started marrying their daughters to British nobles
In 1945, a U.S. naval ship was sunk by a Japanese submarine, but the ship's sinking was just the beginning of the sailors' nightmare
How well can you do on this 101-year old quiz for Bullitt County, Kentucky, eighth graders?
Revelations about the treasury secretary's sex life forced him to choose between candor and his career.
The United States Army had several advantages, but the most decisive was the professionalism instilled at West Point
This map painstakingly created by a Union cartographer presents a snapshot of the nation’s capital during the war
Finding prostitutes in the Union-occupied city was no problem, but expelling them was
A new film revives The Lone Ranger, but has it eliminated the TV series’ racist undertones
Of all the strange baseball exploits of the Depression era, none was more surprising than Jackie Mitchell’s supposed feat
New technology has given us the chance to re-examine how the Civil War battle was won and lost
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