The quarantine officially began when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin closed the lunar module hatch on July 20, 1969, after ...
The granite dome became a symbol of American money stability during the Great Depression. Famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright ...
Steven Udvar-Hazy was born in Budapest in 1946 during Soviet control of Hungary. His classroom walls showed Stalin and Lenin ...
A historic plaque now marks the site of Hay’s showroom, commemorating the night when professional football found its future.
In 1940, the U.S. asked Ford to build bomber parts. Charles Sorensen had a bold idea instead: make whole planes on an ...
October 1943 turned the skies over Germany into a death trap for American airmen. The Eighth Air Force sent waves of B-17 bombers deep into Nazi territory, but the cost was steep. In just one week, ...
The first Fourth of July in the American West wasn’t much like ours today. On July 4, 1804, Lewis and Clark’s men fired their boat cannon at dawn while pushing up the Missouri River. The day was so ...
Most steamboats in the 1800s died young – just four or five years before fires, explosions, or river snags claimed them. Not the City of Hawkinsville. Built in Georgia in 1886, this tough wooden ...
In 1941, two men dug into Arizona’s past and found a gold mine of history. Emil Haury, with his Harvard degree, teamed up with Julian Hayden, who learned archaeology in the field. They cut through 12 ...