Stricken by "vile melancholy," the 18th-century critic and raconteur Samuel Johnson pioneered a modern therapy
Though political tensions linger, terrorists agreed to a cease-fire this past March. Will it mean peace at last?
Remembering martial law 25 years later
Paper dolls, Josephine Baker and the Seven Years' War
A timeline of the country's conflicts
Some promising endeavors on Pacific islands
With innovative tactics, U.S. forces make headway in the "war on terror"
A riverboat's telltale contents included 133-year-old pickles. Want one?
When self-taught archaeologists dug up an 1850s steamboat, they brought to light a slice of American life
Scholars in the fabled African city, once a great center of learning and trade, are racing to save a still emerging cache of ancient manuscripts
William E. Leuchtenburg discusses the 1946 elections and how politics have changed
Momentous or Merely Memorable
A fabled aircraft carrier sunk deliberately off the coast of Florida is the world's largest artificial reef
Momentous or merely memorable
A scheming stepmother or a strong and effective ruler? History's view of the pharaoh Hatshepsut changed over time
Wilson discusses what drew her to study the pharaoh, and Hatshepsut's enduring allure
The first tomb to be discovered in the Valley of the Kings since King Tut's is raising questions for archaeologists about ancient Egypt's burial practices
From the writing of the New Testament to the filming of The Da Vinci Code, her image has been repeatedly conscripted, contorted and contradicted
When the Aztec and Maya played it 500 to 1,000 years ago, the losers sometimes lost their headsliterally
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