The First “Teflon” Hero
What July 4th, 1754 reveals about George Washington’s survival skills
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Raiders or Traders?
A replica Viking vessel plying the North Sea this month is part of an effort to learn more about what the Norsemen were really up to
The Great Human Migration
Why humans left their African homeland 80,000 years ago to colonize the world
A Northern Family Confronts Its Slaveholding Past
Filmmaker Katrina Browne discusses her family’s role in American slavery
The Smithsonian's Crystal Skull
How the museum's quartz cranium highlights the epic silliness of the new Indiana Jones movie
The Brink of War
One hundred fifty years ago, the U.S. Army marched into Utah prepared to battle Brigham Young and his Mormon militia
Tabled Resolution
Betty Ford had a what-the-hell moment—and an accomplice in photographer David Hume Kennerly
America's First True "Pilgrims"
An excerpt from Kenneth C. Davis's new book explains they arrived half a century before the Mayflower reached Plymouth Rock
Where Dinosaurs Roamed
Footprints at one of the nation's oldest—and most fought over—fossil beds offer new clues to how the behemoths lived
Excavation at Stonehenge
For the first time in 45 years, an archaeological dig is being conducted at Great Britain's ancient site
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