As America’s Civil War raged, with the enslavement of millions of people hanging in the balance, African Americans didn’t just…
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An escaped enslaved man named Peter showing his scarred back at a medical examination in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1863. Library…
Throughout human history, children have played with and cared for dolls. Miniature facsimiles of human beings have been found around…
For generations, the dominant cultural narrative of America’s Thanksgiving holiday has told how a Native American man named Squanto showed…
Just three decades after the United States broke free from Great Britain with the American Revolution, the two nations once…
In the late 19th century, the European powers ran roughshod over Africa, brutally colonizing one country after another. Italy, for…
The HISTORY® Channel In a stunning discovery, a 20-foot segment of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger was found off the…
“What do you want for your own people?” That’s the question Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton suggested Union General…
Princess Diana’s BBC interview with Martin Bashir, “An Interview with HRH The Princess of Wales,” aired on November 20, 1995…
In early June of 1942, six months after Pearl Harbor formally jolted the U.S. into World War II, the Japanese…