A historian considers the forces that have shaped the Rough Rider's presidential legacy in the decades since his death more than 100 years ago
Although he 'spoke' German, the vaudevillian canine captured the heart of the nation
The time team's humming a new tune after a run-in with one of the most influential men in American music history
The Iron Man adds the American History Museum's Great Americans medal to his trophy wall
Twenty years ago, the courts gave Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences, thereby ending more than a decade of terror.
As both the First Lady and the mother of a President, Mrs. Bush leaves a legacy of a national grandmother with an iron backbone
The project was a tremendous American achievement, but the health costs to the mostly Caribbean contract workers were staggering
Lenneal Henderson and thousands of other protesters occupied the National Mall for 42 days during the landmark civil rights protest
The discussion over the memorialization of James Marion Sims offers the opportunity to remember his victims
We learn a lot about the once and future President, and he learns way too much about himself, in a tense twist with the past coming to the present
William J. Kennedy crossed the finish line wrapped in the American flag
Unpacking a debate as old as the United States itself
A new 'Joe Camel'-esque phenomenon may be igniting as the new fad takes a 21st-century page out of an old playbook
Earl Tupper invented the container's seal, but it was a savvy, convention-defying entrepreneur who got the product line into the homes of housewives
The CEO of Facebook has some ignominious company from J.P. Morgan to Kenneth Lay
In 1964, the rift between Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammed, founder of the Nation of Islam, would reach a tense peak
A century after killing and scalping ten Native Americans, she was memorialized in what might well be the first public statue of a female in America
The Dugway sheep incident of March 1968 made visible the military’s covert attempts to test and stockpile millions of dollars worth of chemical weapons
Michelle Dean’s new book looks at the intellects who cut through the male-dominated public conversation
Seventy-five percent of Americans disapproved of the civil rights leader as he spoke out against the Vietnam War and economic disparity
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