The first atomic bomb is detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The successful test paved the way for the ...

The Kitty Genovese murder in Queens, New York, in 1964 is one of the most famous murder cases to come out of New York City and into the national spotlight. What propelled it wasn’t the crime or the ...

When Nicholas Romanov was crowned czar of Russia in 1894, he seemed bewildered. “What is going to happen to me…to all Russia?” he asked an advisor when he assumed the throne. “I am not prepared to be ...

The three branches of the U.S. government are the legislative, executive and judicial branches. According to the doctrine of separation of powers, the U.S. Constitution distributed the power of the ...

Nearly 1,000 years ago, immense circles of soaring wooden poles towered over the fertile Mississippi River floodplains, several miles east of present-day St. Louis. Known today as Woodhenge, the ...

Before the Civil War, infantry soldiers typically carried muskets that held just one bullet at a time. The range of these muskets was about 250 yards. However, a soldier trying to aim and shoot with ...

All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander History Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific ...

On June 29, 1956, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. The bill created a 41,000-mile “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways” that would, according to ...

All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander History Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific ...

All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander History Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific ...

General Sherman cuts the rail lines around Atlanta and captures the key Southern city, bolstering public opinion in the North as Lincoln prepares for re-election. 2:08m watch General Sherman’s troops ...

The origins of one of America’s oldest unsolved mysteries can be traced to August 1587, when a group of about 115 English settlers arrived on Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North ...