By summer’s end, 184 people in Wytheville had polio. This meant one in every 30 residents caught the disease, giving the town ...

In 1975, a retired military man named Peter Jefferds changed American food history on a small cove in Washington. After ...

Military staff kept an eye on Newport’s Destroyer Fleet, Naval War College, and Training Station from Beavertail. They also ...

North Dakota hides a $6 billion Cold War relic that lived for just one day. In 1970, workers began building the Stanley R.

Seven slaves from Kentucky arrived in Sandusky, Ohio on October 20, 1852, hoping to board the steamship Arrow to Canada. They ...

Stone Mountain wasn’t just a big rock in Georgia. It was the heart of an empire. In 1887, the Venable brothers bought this mountain for $48,000 and changed American building forever. Soon, their ...

The Apollo 11 crew came home as heroes in 1969, but they couldn’t shake hands with the world just yet. After Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, NASA locked them and Michael Collins in ...

Pro football was a mess in 1920. Players jumped teams for more cash while owners went broke. Ralph Hay, the 29-year-old Canton Bulldogs owner, had seen enough. On a hot September night, he packed 11 ...

Steven Udvar-Hazy saw planes as freedom in 1950s Communist Hungary. As a boy, he built model aircraft from matchsticks and gum while Stalin’s portrait hung in his classroom. Then in 1958, his family ...

In 1940, the U.S. asked Ford to build bomber parts. Charles Sorensen had a bold idea instead: make whole planes on an assembly line. Work soon began on Willow Run, the world’s largest factory with 3.5 ...