A mysterious serial killer prowled in a city rife with xenophobia and racism
A live oak tree from a South Georgia island community will one day enhance the grounds of the African American History Museum
Being engaged carried some legal consequences until the news media got a hold of a sensational story
The nation's first African-American presidency is marked by two prominent African-American portraitists
Just because the country had voted to outlaw alcohol, didn't mean that people would comply. The legal case wasn't much helped by a quirky loophole
As President Trump prepares to send miners back to work, a near-obsolete illness is once again ravaging coal country
David Walker’s “Appeal” laid bare the ethical bankruptcy of slavery moreso than any other book of its time
Edith Roosevelt was a reluctant First Lady. Despite this, she had the presence and determination to bring about a major innovation to the White House
This Douglass Day, celebrate an icon’s bicentennial while helping to transcribe the nation’s black history
The shootings occurred two years before the deaths of students at Kent State University, but remain a little-known incident in the Civil Rights Movement
When physicist Hugh Bradner was brought to work on the Manhattan Project in 1943, the level of secrecy was unparalleled
The skyscrapers of Manhattan needed a new, bolder type of construction worker
Contrary to the popular imagination, bearing arms on the frontier was a heavily regulated business
Dave Tatsuno was one of the 120,000 Japanese-Americans rounded up in the U.S. in 1942 and placed in an internment camp
We don't know who Ben Franklin would root for, but we do know what he'd eat on Super Bowl Sunday
A new mini-series hopes to humanize those in and outside the doomed compound
Islam in America dates to the founding fathers, says Smithsonian’s religion curator Peter Manseau
During the construction of the Golden Gate bridge, the construction companies had a grim rule of thumb: one worker fatality for every million dollars spent
During the Civil War, the North imposed a suffocating blockade of a number of key Confederate port
Eleanor dedicated her life to fighting for the rights of the oppressed, including pushing FDR to set up the National Youth Administration
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