A Napoleon memorabilia auction this past weekend brought in $12.5 million and proved the enduring interest in the French emperor.
Alonzo Cushing, a Union lieutenant killed at the Battle of Gettysburg, has finally received the Medal of Honor 151 years after his death.
On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, learn 10 surprising facts about the iconic Cold War symbol.
The grisly vampire hysteria that gripped a New England town in 1892 sounds like a Halloween legend, but it is a true tale of the macabre.
On the 40th anniversary of the epic heavyweight title fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, look back at boxing’s “Rumble in the Jungle.”
Explore eight surprising facts about the groundbreaking polio vaccine that Salk developed.
California archaeologists have unearthed a piece of Hollywood history—a plaster sphinx from the 1923 Cecil B. DeMille epic “The Ten Commandments.”
