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Suzanne McGee

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How Suffragists Pioneered New Types of Peaceful Protest

Women infused their protests with creativity, PR savvy and in-your-face urgency.

How a Female Pinkerton Detective Helped Save Abraham Lincoln's Life

In 1861, Kate Warne kept the president-elect safe from an assassination plot on his train journey to Washington.

'The Mother of the Gracchi', c. 1780. Ancient Rome's Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, presents her children, saying: Here are my riches and my jewels. From the Musee du Louvre, Paris.

Their lives and value were defined almost solely in relation to men: their fathers and husbands. But some women found ways to claim their own power.

Meir earned the title, in part, because of her steely leadership during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

How Barry Goldwater Brought the Far Right to Center Stage in the 1964 Presidential Race

Despite a landslide loss, the Arizona Republican ignited his party's ultra-conservative wing for decades to come.

Franklin Roosevelt sitting at his desk, looking pensively to the side

One of America's most revered presidents, Roosevelt also had his share of missteps—from trying to pack the Supreme Court to incarcerating Japanese Americans.

Muriel Siebert, first female head of a brokerage firm, above the floor of the NY Stock Exchange.

Long before Martha and Oprah, as far back as the late colonial era, these successful business women were breaking glass ceilings.

Jim Obergefell was married to his husband John Arthur on a medical jet in Maryland shortly before Arthur died of ALS. Obergefell holds his wedding band that has been fused together with Arthur's ashes and wedding ring. (Credit: Maddie McGarvey/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The 14th Amendment's guarantee to "due process" provided a basis for these five Supreme Court rulings that have impacted Americans' lives.

How Bank Failures Contributed to the Great Depression

Were financial institutions victims—or culprits?

Why the Soviet Union Invaded Afghanistan

The 1979 invasion triggered a brutal, nine-year civil war and contributed significantly to the USSR's later collapse.

How the KGB Quashed Dissent Across the Soviet Union

From the Bolsheviks' Red Terror and Stalin's Great Purge to forced hospital 'treatments,' the secret police agency—and its earlier incarnations—used consistently brutal tactics.

Surrender of Lord Cornwallis

The Marquis de Lafayette was only the beginning.

How Billionaire Ross Perot Brought Populism Back to Presidential Politics

That sucking sound back in 1992? The votes he spirited away from the mainstream parties.

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House May 1, 2011, Washington, D.C.

The image captures a defining historic moment, as Barack Obama and his top advisers anxiously watch the high-stakes SEAL Team Six operation unfold.

8 Facts About the Hideout Where Osama bin Lived and Died

Before the 9/11 mastermind was killed in a SEAL Team raid in his Abbottabad, Pakistan compound, he and his family lived isolated, austere lives there.

15 of America's Most Historic Restaurants, Katz Deli NYC

This selection of enduring eateries reflects the nation's mosaic of cultures.

Salesman demonstrating an electric refrigerator to a shopper, c. 1920

Electric appliances large and small promised reduced drudgery.

Five agents wearing hard helmets and FBI windbreakers, seen from the back.

From the Osage murders to the Oklahoma City bombing, these crimes stand among the biggest and most complex the Bureau has faced.

The FAA Control tower and Concourse "C" at Denver International Airport.

Here’s how the profession’s most chaotic—and harrowing—day unfolded.

The town of Unalaska, on Unalaska Island, was founded in 1700s as the first headquarters of the Russian-American Company in Alaska. A Russian Orthodox church appears in the lower left.

Russia began encroaching into Alaskan territory in the mid 18th century, eventually establishing settlements as far south as California.