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 ...

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

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

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 ...

October 1943 turned the skies over Germany into a death trap for American airmen. The Eighth Air Force sent waves of B-17 bombers deep into Nazi territory, but the cost was steep. In just one week, ...

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 ...

The first Fourth of July in the American West wasn’t much like ours today. On July 4, 1804, Lewis and Clark’s men fired their boat cannon at dawn while pushing up the Missouri River. The day was so ...