Princess Diana demonstrated a remarkable savviness for bending the press coverage in her favor
Her exclusive dispatches from the last days of Nazi Germany appeared in newspapers around the country, briefly making her a national celebrity
Writers of the FX program have a much different spin than the recent movie on the same subject matter
The American naturalist spent the last years of his life cataloguing America's four-legged creatures
The denim-clad artist who painted American Gothic wasn’t the hayseed he’d have you believe
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white male. Her arrest sparked a citywide boycott against Montgomery buses
Once John E. Washington started to dig, he found an incredible wealth of untapped knowledge about the 16th president
In mid-1954, a riveted nation watched Senator Joseph McCarthy accuse the U.S. Army of being infiltrated by communistd
The connection between first lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her African-American seamstress Elizabeth Keckley was a remarkably strong one
The aspiring author knew Olivia Langdon was the one when he first laid eyes on a photograph of her
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
Eleanor dedicated her life to fighting for the rights of the oppressed, including pushing FDR to set up the National Youth Administration
A debilitating eye injury and racial epithets weren't enough to derail the player's resolve
Did the designer meet his killer seven years earlier?
New Smithsonian Channel special has rare Queen Elizabeth II interview and offers a closeup of the Crown Jewels
Minister, theologian and mystic Howard Thurman had a profound influence on Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
When kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst's voice was transmitted on Radio KPFK in 1974, it wasn't the desperate plea for freedom many expected
On tape, kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst disavowed her family and expressed her support for the Symbionese Liberation Army
On October 9, 1962, Bartolomeo and Margareta Filippin became trapped on the second floor of their house in Longarone, Italy
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