Sixty years ago, three pathologists at the National Naval Medical Center examined the president's fatal wounds
Fifty years after he was introduced to the world, the Doctor's influence is bigger on the inside
It's hard to imagine anyone could pan Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address, but one cantankerous reporter did just that
As America prepared to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Civil War, two centenarians told their tales -- only one was telling the truth
After a teenage beauty turned up dead in the Hudson River, not even the godfather of detective fiction could figure out who done it
Art historian and author Paul Koudounaris elucidates the macabre splendor and tragic history of Europe’s catacomb saints
Not even a specific allegation of philandering, illicit pregnancy and coverup barred Grover Cleveland from the White House
At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of women known as the Harvard Observatory computers helped revolutionize the science of astronomy
What could a wounded woman do? For one thing, she could sue
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Mary and John Surratt helped John Wilkes Booth assassinate Abraham Lincoln and then paid the ultimate penalty for their actions
A furtive antiquarian nicknamed Stoney Jack was responsible for almost every major archaeological find made in London between 1895 and 1939
The nouveau riche of the Gilded Age had buckets of money but little social standing—until they started marrying their daughters to British nobles
In 1945, a U.S. naval ship was sunk by a Japanese submarine, but the ship's sinking was just the beginning of the sailors' nightmare
Mary Burns exposed the capitalist's son to the plight of the working people of Manchester
Revelations about the treasury secretary's sex life forced him to choose between candor and his career.
In the medieval period, the Middle East was home to many of the world's wealthiest cities—and to a large proportion of its most desperate criminals
The United States Army had several advantages, but the most decisive was the professionalism instilled at West Point
Finding prostitutes in the Union-occupied city was no problem, but expelling them was
A tribesman who led a doomed revolt against Japan in 1669 still inspires new generations of Ainu nationalists
Aimee Semple McPherson was an American phenomenon even before she went missing for five weeks in 1926.
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