We've always been a nation of risk-takers, from the Yankee Leaper of the 1820s to the 1960s stuntman behind The Great Escape.
William Jackson Smart was a twice-married, twice-widowed father of 14 children.
The famed physicist would later denounce racism, but his diaries reveal shocking reflections from when he was a young man.
Within the charred remains of a Pictish fort, new clues emerge about the customs and culture of one of the lost peoples of Europe.
Virginia Hall, a.k.a. the ‘Limping Lady,’ organized sabotage and rescue operations across Vichy France, paving the way for the Allied invasion.
