Leif Eriksson Day commemorates the Norse explorer believed to have led the first European expedition to North America.
More than two centuries after George Washington’s death, his wish to build his own presidential library has finally been fulfilled.
On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain received a rowdy homecoming after signing a peace pact with Nazi Germany.
A newly declassified document reveals how close the United States came to accidentally detonating a nuclear bomb on North Carolina in 1961.
The monstrous Hurricane of 1938 killed hundreds as it tore through the Northeast—and no one knew it was coming.
On the anniversary of the birth of Jesse Owens, learn 10 surprising facts about the Olympic track and field champion.
“We have met the enemy and they are ours,” proclaimed Oliver Perry after defeating a British fleet on Lake Erie 200 years ago.
Over 175 years after the escape of Frederick Douglass from slavery, look back at how the famed abolitionist became a free man.
