Battlefields from every conflict—from the Revolutionary War to Desert Storm—have yielded stories about the incongruous mix of Christmas and warfare.

To finance the abolition cause, women organized Christmas bazaars that sold donated gifts and trumpeted the anti-slavery message.

Our lives are so full of stuff that the average object can be instantly forgettable. But when fate and history combine, even the simplest of objects can change the world.

In 1773, a group of colonists protested 13 years of increasing British oppression by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor.

While Jews today observe Hanukkah by retelling the story of Judah and the Maccabees, there is another story that used to be told.

This fascinating special tells the story of Albert Einstein's 15-year struggle to prove one of his most radical theories—a theory that upended three centuries of scientific thought.

Before the term "snowboarding" existed—and at least 80 years before it was an Olympic phenomenon—people were surfing down snowy hills.

Electric lights have been a holiday spectacle for generations, and the first ones actually came from the inventor himself, Thomas Edison.