The sequence of events is not given much thought, but in 1881, America had three, different presidents. In March, James...

P.T. Barnum made a fortune selling fantasies under his eponymous Grand Scientific & Musical Theater, American Museum, and the circus,...

There are some who believe the suffrage movement began on July 4, 1776—even though traction was tepid until the mid-1800s....

On August 3, 1958, USS Nautilus, the world’s inaugural nuclear-powered submarine, turned into the first seagoing vessel to reach the...

On July 17, 1975, a coterie of astronauts, and cosmonauts, rendezvoused in the stars. According to some, America and the...

Even though America declared its independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress had—in the previous year—approved...

NASA might have been conceived in 1958, but America’s astronaut corps did not accept women until twenty years later; in...

On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation put an end to slavery in the United States, but it took time...

The Lincoln-Douglas debates pushed the possibility of a Lincoln presidency into inevitability. Positioned against Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois in...

On May 5, 1961, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. became the first American in space. It was just a...

Less than two months after the siege of the Alamo, the Texas War for Independence took a turn towards triumph;...

Intrinsically, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a conservationist, who once said, “the forests are the lungs of our land [which] purify...