The four-seat Thunderbird won Motor Trend’s Car of the Year award in 1958. It was the first time a single model, not an ...

On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of Boston colonists near the Custom House on King Street. Five ...

Hartford Circus Fire. Thousands of families packed the circus tent on a hot Thursday afternoon for what should have been pure ...

Ella Fitzgerald made history on May 4, 1959, as the first woman to win a Grammy Award. The “First Lady of Song” took home two ...

The Scopes trial began on July 10, 1925, in Dayton, Tennessee. John Scopes, a young teacher, was accused of breaking the ...

King Charles named the territory “Maryland” after his Catholic wife, Queen Henrietta Maria. This became the fourth English ...

The camp stood in California’s Owens Valley between the Sierra Nevada mountains and the high desert. Officials picked this ...

You must visit with a Navajo guide to enter this sacred site. Tours depart from Page, Arizona, about 3 miles west on Highway ...

Smokestacks rose where farm fields once stretched. Production lines started churning out chocolate bars in 1905. The ...

On February 13, 1960, 124 students began the Nashville sit-in campaign that lasted until May 10. Most participants were Black ...

On May 20, 1862, President Lincoln grabbed his pen and changed America forever. Congress tried to pass homestead bills three ...

Otis Clark (age 18) narrowly escaped while his stepfather was killed and his home burned down, witnessing the destruction of ...