Remembering the Great War and how we're still living through its legacy today
A vehemently isolationist nation needed enticement to join the European war effort. These advertisements were part of the campaign to do just that
America's home front was the site of interment, deportation, and vast property seizure
“Hawaii by Air” opens today at the National Air and Space Museum, tracing the history of air travel to America’s “most exotic state.”
The myth of the Battle of the Marne has persisted, but what exactly happened in the first major conflict of the war?
As long as there have been home runs and strike outs, ballplayers, even some Yankees, have sported mustaches, beards and side burns
The debacle of the Eisenhower memorial is only the most recent entry in a grand D.C. tradition of fraught monuments
Objects belonging to the anti-slavery advocate spent a century collecting dust in an attic. Now they're on their way to the African-American history museum
These 19th-century gentlemen of good standing let their inner boors loose in secret London backrooms
Chris Long's <em>A Tale of Two Thieves</em> examines the largest cash theft of its time
The National Postal Museum's "Behind the Badge" exhibit explores the history and legacy of the United States Postal Inspection Service
This interactive map will show you the sources of the planet's precious metals
The year was 1864, and the South was all but beaten, yet Jubal Early's ragged army had D.C. within its grasp
Number three: Fireworks are just chemical reactions
The leading mechanic of the famed H.L. Hunley led quite the life, if we can believe any of it
Fifty years later, a dive into what it took to make the historic legislation law
Fifty years after the civil rights summer of 1964, renowned travel writer Paul Theroux chronicles the living memory of an overlooked America
His daring raids in World War I made him a legend. But in the Middle East today, the desert warrior’s legacy is written in sand
The star-spangled war confirmed independence for the United States. But for Great Britain, it was a betrayal
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