During the era of horse-drawn railroads, workers filled in a ravine at Duffy's Cut.

Ireland’s Forgotten Sons Recovered Two Centuries Later

In Pennsylvania, amateur archaeologists unearth a mass grave of immigrant railroad workers who disappeared in 1832

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Meet Mrs. Obama’s Inaugural Jewelry Designer Loree Rodkin

“You’ve called the wrong jewelry designer,” was Rodkin’s first thought when she got the call to do Michelle Obama’s inaugural earrings, ring and bracelets

In 1903, a barge called the Harold tipped somewhere off the coast of New York City, sending most of its 7,700 silver-and-lead bars to the bottom.

The Search for the Guggenheim Treasure

Loot valued at $20 million lies off the coast of Staten Island, and Ken Hayes is on the hunt for the sunken silver bullion

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Winter Olympics

30th Anniversary of the Miracle on Ice

The men’s hockey team shocked the world

May Asaki Ishimoto became one of the country's most established ballet wardrobe mistresses.

The Story of a Ballet Wardrobe Mistress

The precise stitchwork of May Asaka Ishimoto, a second generation Japanese American who survived two years in an internment camp

Britain's leaders made a miscalculation when they assumed that resistance from the colonies, as the Earl of Dartmouth predicted, could not be "very formidable."

Myths of the American Revolution

A noted historian debunks the conventional wisdom about America’s War of Independence

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