The famous inventor envisioned a future of inexpensive, prefabricated concrete homes
While Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire were fighting World War I, two Afghans opened up a second front in an Australian outback town 12,000 miles away
After a brutal postseason, can London finally beat New York City?
Charles Blondin understood the appeal of the morbid to the masses, and reveled when gamblers took bets on whether he would plunge to a watery death
How do people decide what does or doesn't look futuristic?
In 1782, an unknown French engineer offered an invention better than radar: the ability to detect ships hundreds of miles away
Advertisers in the 1940s promised American consumers that they would be rewarded for their wartime sacrifices on the homefront
The inventors' battle over the delivery of electricity was an epic power play
The innovator wasn't just this generation's Thomas Edison, he was also its Walt Disney
The British monarch was present when a solicitor demonstrated one of the earliest audio recording devices. But did she really say "tomatoes"?
The historian discusses the ecological impact of Columbus’ landing in 1492 on both the Old World and the New World
Deep in the collections of the Library of Congress are ghostly images and voices of Union and Confederate soldiers
A utopian vision of Boston promises no slums, no traffic jams, no late mail deliveries and, best of all, night baseball games
In the early 20th century, resentment at the concentration of wealth took a violent turn
The physicist's dedication to science made it difficult for outsiders to understand her, but a century after her second Nobel prize, she gets a second look
"Whether it was TV or magazines, the world got changed one image at a time," says Maurice Berger, curator of a new exhibit at American History
While the generals on both sides deliberated, troops in blue and gray fidgeted
Momentous or Merely Memorable
And things of beauty
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