The Phrygian cap, also known as the liberty cap, emerged as a potent symbol in 18th-century America and France
A new lesson plan centers Native American perspectives on the violence of Western expansion
The sport's greatest figures played ball in the Deep South amid the racism and bigotry that would later make Birmingham the center of the civil rights movement
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First exhibited in 1878, Charles F. Ritchel's dirigible was about as wacky, dangerous and impractical as any airship ever launched
Thomas Jefferson imagined the waterway as the heart of his “empire of liberty" as he dispatched surveyors to measure a land already occupied by Native Americans
In June 1944, the veteran journalist hid on a hospital ship so she could report firsthand as Allied soldiers fought their way onto the beaches of Normandy
A food history writer and an influential podcast host tell us how our thinking about health and body weight has—and hasn’t—evolved ever since Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters took the nation by storm
The 1924 Indian Citizenship Act sought to assimilate Native people into white society. But the legislation, signed by President Calvin Coolidge, fell short
The saga of People's Grocery stands as a powerful reminder of the centrality of Black radicalism to the food justice movement
A century ago, two Chicago teenagers killed an acquaintance named Bobby Franks for the thrill of it. The case captivated the nation and continues to fascinate the public today
Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of novels, almanacs, soap wrappers, and everything in between
The new show serves as an entertaining history lesson, but even that has its creative limits
A new course at University of Hawaii at Manoa rethinks historic preservation, having enrollees design digital twins of notable structures so that people can experience them virtually
Class, nativism and gender stereotypes all played a role in Borden's acquittal for the 1892 killings of her father and stepmother
Enemy soldiers overlooked Josefina "Joey" Guerrero due to her condition. Later, her heroic actions on behalf of the Allies were largely forgotten
Take in the remarkable tale of the fake attorney best known as L.A. Harris, whose scams put him in trouble with the law in jurisdictions nationwide
The eccentric inventor's dream of a wireless-transmission tower would prove to be his undoing
A second-generation immigrant, Hazel Ying Lee was the first Chinese American woman to receive her pilot's license
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A group of Union men from Ohio held a makeshift Seder in the western Virginia woods in 1862
A new limited series starring Michael Douglas as Benjamin Franklin revisits the founding father's years as the American ambassador to France
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