The Sultana wreck claimed over 1,800 lives.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The time-tested adage appears to be the lesson from Coca-Cola’s disastrous introduction of “New Coke” in 1985.
Changing course, the Pentagon will exhume and try to identify the remains of hundreds of USS Oklahoma sailors killed during the 1941 Pearl Harbor bombing.
Decades after his reported death, John Wilkes Booth had a second box-office career when his purported mummy became a carnival attraction.
Take an armchair tour of the numerous artifacts connected to Abraham Lincoln's assassination
On the anniversary of the Lincoln assassination, explore 10 surprising facts about one of the most infamous moments in American history.
Robert E. Lee’s surrender did not officially end the Civil War. Find out where the fighting continued in the weeks after Appomattox.