The discovery of a tunnel that Jewish prisoners dug with hands and spoons to flee a Nazi death camp in Lithuania confirms one of the Holocaust’s great escape stories.
Get the story behind Dwight Eisenhower’s grueling, 62-day cross-country road trip that inspired the creation of the Interstate Highway System.
Vietnam veteran Charles Kettles will be awarded the Medal of Honor next month for his heroic actions as a helicopter pilot nearly 50 years ago.
In light of new evidence, a Harvard professor who revealed a controversial papyrus fragment suggesting Jesus was married now admits that it is likely a modern forgery.
Satellite imagery and drones have revealed an enormous man-made stone structure “hiding in plain sight” at the ancient city of Petra.
Archaeologists using airborne lasers have found evidence that vast medieval cities once surrounded Angkor Wat and other Cambodian temple complexes.
If ROOTS has you inspired to explore your slave ancestry, here are some recommendations of places to start.
Look back at one of the most epic nautical chases and battles in naval history, the sinking of the mighty Nazi battleship Bismarck.
