Explore nine key facts about the most famous battle of the Hundred Years’ War.
Long before there was a Federal Bureau of Investigation, there was the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. Check out 10 little-known facts about the detective agency that helped usher in the modern era of law enforcement.
On October 21, 1805, British Admiral Horatio Nelson gambled on an unorthodox naval maneuver and defeated a superior French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar—but at the cost of his life.
From a doomed Patriot to an officer who spied on the British in plain sight, get the facts on five of the American Revolution’s most legendary secret agents.
On October 12, 1915, World War I nurse Edith Cavell faced a firing squad after she was caught funneling some 200 Allied troops out of German-occupied Belgium.
Explore the story of the most destructive Atlantic storm in recorded history, which killed more than 22,000.
Presidential politics entered a new era 55 years ago, when John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon took part in the first televised debate in American history.
