Jackie Robinson may have kept silent in the face of racial bigotry in his first two seasons after breaking baseball’s color barrier, but after 1949 he was quiet no longer and became a powerful voice for civil rights.
On the centennial of America’s entry into World War I, explore the historical debate about whether the decision to declare war on Germany was a correct one or not.
From nicotine to shrapnel to silhouette, learn about 10 everyday words that you may not have known are namesakes of real people from history.
From a downtown St. Louis theme park to the world’s largest aquarium, take a virtual trip through eight Disney attractions that never got off the drawing board.
Henryk Ross risked his life to take thousands of secret photographs inside the ghetto at Lodz, Poland.
From crucifixion to suffocation, poisoning to beheading and stoning to starvation, check out 10 particularly gruesome deaths suffered by popes in the early history of the Catholic Church.
More than 150 years ago, it was the Irish who were refugees forced into exile by a humanitarian and political disaster. Explore this era of scorn the Irish initially encountered and find out how they became part of the American mainstream.
