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51fa9f78b3186793224a5c0120447c11 | https://www.history.com/news/duck-boats-world-war-ii-d-day | Duck Boats Offered a Unique Solution to a World War II Problem | Duck Boats Offered a Unique Solution to a World War II Problem
Duck boats are a U.S. tourist attraction that have unfortunately seen several high-profile accidents (the most recent killed 17 people on Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri). Yet before they were a controversial tour vehicle, the Allied troops during Worl... |
ce4ddd94a06a91f61e4c8e30e40e3654 | https://www.history.com/news/duck-cover-drills-cold-war-arms-race | How 'Duck-and-Cover' Drills Channeled America's Cold War Anxiety | How 'Duck-and-Cover' Drills Channeled America's Cold War Anxiety
On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union detonated its first nuclear device at a remote site in Kazakhstan, signaling a new and terrifying phase in the Cold War. By the early 1950s, schools across the United States were training students to dive under their d... |
d428e169ceea175db7324fd21d8d5c97 | https://www.history.com/news/dust-bowl-migrants-california | How the Dust Bowl Made Americans Refugees in Their Own Country | How the Dust Bowl Made Americans Refugees in Their Own Country
Eight decades ago hordes of migrants poured into California in search of a place to live and work. But those refugees weren’t from other countries, they were Americans and former inhabitants of the Great Plains and the Midwest who had lost their homes and l... |
1a5f4172063c2ecb0515abd55991c0a9 | https://www.history.com/news/dwight-eisenhower-joseph-mccarthy-red-scare | Dwight Eisenhower's Quiet Plan to Halt Joseph McCarthy's Red-Scare Tactics | Dwight Eisenhower's Quiet Plan to Halt Joseph McCarthy's Red-Scare Tactics
Though they were both Republicans and briefly campaigned together in 1952, President Dwight D. Eisenhower “loathed [Senator Joseph] McCarthy as much as any human being could possibly loathe another,” according to the president’s brother. Yet Eis... |
8f975aa322203d84105c751880d01e72 | https://www.history.com/news/earliest-american-art-found-in-florida | Earliest American Art Found in Florida? | Earliest American Art Found in Florida?
In 2009, James Kennedy cleaned off a bone he’d discovered in his native Florida that had been sitting under his sink collecting dust for a couple of years. To his surprise, the amateur fossil hunter noticed an image of what appeared to be a mammoth or mastodon etched into the 15-... |
9555b6b99c0695c42c6776d67ed8eed3 | https://www.history.com/news/early-environmentalists | Early Environmentalists | Early Environmentalists
The green movement has gained momentum since April 22, 1970, when 20 million people participated in the very first Earth Day. But can we really call ourselves the greenest generation? Eco-friendly initiatives—many closely resembling our modern efforts—date all the way back to ancient times. Cons... |
43e94739f1b0940c733bf750d99d2642 | https://www.history.com/news/early-human-like-species-discovered-in-south-africa | Early Human-Like Species Discovered in South Africa | Early Human-Like Species Discovered in South Africa
The fossils were found in 2013 by two amateur cavers spelunking through the recesses of the Rising Star cave system, located 30 miles northwest of Johannesburg. The fossil-rich region has been called the “Cradle of Humankind” thanks to the past discovery of extinct ho... |
6e79a4132c6f0da017c347b3e6b2977b | https://www.history.com/news/early-spanish-colony-unearthed-in-downtown-pensacola | Early Spanish Colony Unearthed In Downtown Pensacola | Early Spanish Colony Unearthed In Downtown Pensacola
Early in October, a local historian named Tom Garner was driving through downtown Pensacola when he noticed ground disturbed on a private lot where a house had recently been bulldozed. Garner had read the translated version of Don Tristán de Luna’s papers years earli... |
a1bfba8cf4d7c54c2d3dc4cdb85397c1 | https://www.history.com/news/early-womens-rights-movement-beyond-suffrage | Early Women’s Rights Activists Wanted Much More than Suffrage | Early Women’s Rights Activists Wanted Much More than Suffrage
This may sound odd coming from a scholar of women’s history and a newly minted legislator, but I think we’ve heard enough about women’s suffrage.
When New York State recently marked the 100th anniversary of its passage of women’s right to vote, I ought to ha... |
d7945a01ea1cbdc06db98f01ea5a9981 | https://www.history.com/news/earth-day-blue-marble-space-apollo | Our Changing View of Earth from Space: Photos | Our Changing View of Earth from Space: Photos
The Apollo program transfixed the United States and the world in the 1960s for its heroic effort to fulfill the promise of President John F. Kennedy to go to the moon. But its most endearing legacy may have been, not visiting the barren world that is our planetary companion... |
c975d5ea0784a4fdd70bc1ec7569447f | https://www.history.com/news/earth-like-planet-found-orbiting-suns-nearest-neighbor | Earth-Like Planet Found Orbiting Sun’s Nearest Neighbor | Earth-Like Planet Found Orbiting Sun’s Nearest Neighbor
It’s being called one of the biggest astronomical discoveries of the century: a potentially habitable Earth-like planet is orbiting the closest neighbor to our sun, a red dwarf star known as Proxima Centauri. Scientists with the European Southern Observatory (ESO)... |
69432e80480ddd8accd7d53bdafbc0f7 | https://www.history.com/news/earth-like-planets-found-to-be-common | Earth-Like Planets Found to Be Common | Earth-Like Planets Found to Be Common
The existence of planets outside our solar system was strictly the domain of science fiction until 1992, when scientists confirmed that at least two of them circled a rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar in the constellation Virgo. Another extrasolar planet was detected th... |
331adea7d91132ba1a96c00fad9a6738 | https://www.history.com/news/easter-foods-from-lamb-to-eggs | Easter Foods, From Lamb to Eggs | Easter Foods, From Lamb to Eggs
This weekend, families across the country and around the world will celebrate Easter with leg of lamb dinners, egg hunts and lots of chocolate bunnies. But how did lamb, eggs and chocolate become iconic aspects of the Easter tradition, much like turkey and cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving... |
2b8d69049380aa2ce973c20b4e543aea | https://www.history.com/news/eating-as-the-romans-ate | Eating As the Romans Ate | Eating As the Romans Ate
Like its more famous neighbor Pompeii, the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum was completely buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., unleashing an avalanche of superheated ash, pumice, rocks and volcanic gas onto the thriving seaside resort and its fleeing residents. In 1738, excavations ... |
62dedab66cab0900b9f4b5e368a16e89 | https://www.history.com/news/eating-meat-allowed-humans-to-conquer-globe-scientists-say | Eating Meat Allowed Humans to Conquer Globe, Scientists Say | Eating Meat Allowed Humans to Conquer Globe, Scientists Say
In human “natural fertility societies,” meaning groups that don’t use birth control, women breastfeed their children for an average of 27 months—until toddlers reach 2 years and a few months in age. While this may seem like a decent amount of time, it’s only a... |
573dbc6ab25a75d0ee7c7d6d486d2023 | https://www.history.com/news/egypt-dig-reveals-animal-mummies-and-possible-hatshepsut-statue | Egypt Dig Reveals Animal Mummies and Possible Hatshepsut Statue | Egypt Dig Reveals Animal Mummies and Possible Hatshepsut Statue
[slideshow exclude=”6936″]Researchers excavating an ancient Egyptian holy site have unearthed a number of rare finds, including animal mummies, a private chapel and a wooden statue that might represent the female pharaoh Hatshepsut. The excavations took pl... |
ccfdb8c8839f29e9b530f62ee78aec73 | https://www.history.com/news/eight-surprising-facts-about-alexander-the-great | 8 Surprising Facts about Alexander the Great | 8 Surprising Facts about Alexander the Great
Alexander’s father, Philip II of Macedon, hired Aristotle, one of history’s greatest philosophers,, to educate the 13-year-old prince. Little is known about Alexander’s three-year tutelage but presumably by the end of it Aristotle’s wise but worldly approach had sunk in. Acc... |
395f28cca7b30f93478d72fc50e65bb3 | https://www.history.com/news/eight-times-queen-victoria-survived-attempted-assassinations | 8 Times Queen Victoria Survived Attempted Assassinations | 8 Times Queen Victoria Survived Attempted Assassinations
Four months after their royal wedding, newlyweds Queen Victoria and Prince Albert departed Buckingham Palace in an open carriage for their regular ride through Hyde Park. Just 100 yards outside the palace gates, Albert noticed “a little mean-looking man holding s... |
75ff26505076e3c75c193f3e86c62bb0 | https://www.history.com/news/eight-unusual-good-luck-charms | Eight Unusual Good Luck Charms | Eight Unusual Good Luck Charms
“Luck,” the playwright Tennessee Williams once wrote, “is believing you’re lucky.” That may be true, but people around the world have always tried to boost their good fortunes with talismans, symbols and trinkets—including a few that may seem bizarre today.
From phallic charms to chimney ... |
eb78bcee5a561c6b0cdf965d94848ce6 | https://www.history.com/news/einsteins-relativity-theory-passes-tough-test | Einstein’s Relativity Theory Passes Tough Test | Einstein’s Relativity Theory Passes Tough Test
About 7,000 light-years from Earth, a massive neutron star spinning at a rate of 25 times per second is being orbited by a compact white dwarf star once every two-and-a-half hours. The neutron star was formed from the material left over after a supernova explosion that mar... |
27716b7048ff57df90befb7e1dbbc84d | https://www.history.com/news/eisenhower-churchill-d-day-wwii | Why General Eisenhower Threatened to Quit Just Before D-Day | Why General Eisenhower Threatened to Quit Just Before D-Day
As the Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe and leader of the D-Day invasion, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower became legendary for his ability to get officers and armies from different nations to work together to defeat Nazi Germany.
But if needed, he was al... |
bc37b8bc099203284e55b4a897b0759a | https://www.history.com/news/eisenhower-wwii-battle-kasserine-pass | How Gen. Eisenhower Spun a WWII Defeat into Winning Military Strategy | How Gen. Eisenhower Spun a WWII Defeat into Winning Military Strategy
As the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the European theater, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is remembered as one of the most masterful military figures in history, the man behind the bold and superbly-executed Normandy invasion in June 1944 that led... |
40714258a85087f5ffded78f3e9dfcba | https://www.history.com/news/elba-exile-napoleon-escape | How Napoleon Plotted One of History’s Greatest Prison Breaks | How Napoleon Plotted One of History’s Greatest Prison Breaks
When British writer William Crackanthorpe visited the Mediterranean island of Elba in 1814, he was wildly curious about its most famous resident: the disgraced emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Months earlier, Napoleon had been exiled to Elba in one of history’s gr... |
0c45c06b32af9f0cbc9757828c5af4b7 | https://www.history.com/news/eleanor-roosevelt-universal-declaration-human-rights | How Eleanor Roosevelt Pushed for Universal Human Rights | How Eleanor Roosevelt Pushed for Universal Human Rights
“The future must see the broadening of human rights throughout the world,” Eleanor Roosevelt told a crowd in September 1948 at the Sorbonne in Paris. “People who have glimpsed freedom will never be content until they have secured it for themselves… People who cont... |
d95a9ac11f14fd64f774fb3363e40a4f | https://www.history.com/news/election-101-how-did-the-tradition-of-kissing-babies-begin | Election 101: How did the tradition of kissing babies begin? | Election 101: How did the tradition of kissing babies begin?
Baby-kissing may be a campaign trail cliche—and a germaphobe’s nightmare—but it’s also a time-honored American political tradition. According to George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum Director Alan Lowe, who researched the subject for the institution’... |
6a5c75e02fcf23ed1f0ae7085a0e45ce | https://www.history.com/news/election-101-why-is-the-republican-party-known-as-the-g-o-p | Why Is the Republican Party Known as the GOP? | Why Is the Republican Party Known as the GOP?
The initials synonymous with the Republican Party—“GOP”—stand for “grand old party.” As early as the 1870s, politicians and newspapers began to refer to the Republican Party as both the “grand old party” and the “gallant old party” to emphasize its role in preserving the Un... |
53f22e94c5c712cd746b48a6f3f329fe | https://www.history.com/news/electoral-college-founding-fathers-constitutional-convention | What Is the Electoral College and Why Was It Created? | What Is the Electoral College and Why Was It Created?
Five times in history, presidential candidates have won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College. This has led some to question why Americans use this system to elect their presidents in the first place.
Among the many thorny questions debated by the delegate... |
2ed043767d1cd8eaf1621a18b699da32 | https://www.history.com/news/electoral-college-nearly-abolished-thurmond | How the Electoral College Was Nearly Abolished in 1970 | How the Electoral College Was Nearly Abolished in 1970
On September 18, 1969, the U.S. House of Representatives voted by an overwhelming 338 to 70 to send a constitutional amendment to the Senate that would have dismantled the Electoral College, the indirect system by which Americans elect the president and vice presid... |
3aa610b4b59dc028ba6073f7835c63f5 | https://www.history.com/news/electors-chosen-electoral-college | How Are Electoral College Electors Chosen? | How Are Electoral College Electors Chosen?
Delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 argued over a lot of things, but one of their biggest debates was over how the United States should elect its president.
Some among the Founding Fathers believed that direct nationwide election by the people would be the most ... |
e3c0f7c3ffe12b1fa74243e6581bbc28 | https://www.history.com/news/eliza-alexander-hamilton-legacy | How Alexander Hamilton's Widow, Eliza, Carried on His Legacy | How Alexander Hamilton's Widow, Eliza, Carried on His Legacy
After Vice President Aaron Burr killed Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804, Hamilton’s widow, Elizabeth Schuyler “Eliza” Hamilton, had to find a way to go on without her beloved husband. One of the ways she found solace—and honored his mem... |
5c6322f4a747267f0eb82e3b3ebf19d1 | https://www.history.com/news/elizabeth-i-royal-progress-expense | Why Royal Guests Have Always Been a Royal Pain | Why Royal Guests Have Always Been a Royal Pain
Every summer, Queen Elizabeth I and her massive court set out on a months’ long progress, with a mile-long train of dozens of carriages, carts and over a thousand horses. For this elaborate summer vacation, no regular inn would suit the Virgin Queen. Instead, Elizabeth sta... |
625d47d27a625892f7d44f2742d04c12 | https://www.history.com/news/elizabeth-mary-queen-of-scots-imprisonment-death | Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots: Cousins, Rivals, Queens | Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Queen Elizabeth I of England and Mary, Queen of Scots were two of the greatest, most legendary rivals in recorded history—although they never even met. In one castle was Elizabeth, the childless “virgin” queen: bawdy, brilliant, tactical and cynical. In the ... |
4fb5c04cd3d61f3baa79a1692890f055 | https://www.history.com/news/ellis-island-immigration-photos-diversity | 20 Ellis Island Immigration Photos That Capture the Hope and Diversity of New Arrivals | 20 Ellis Island Immigration Photos That Capture the Hope and Diversity of New Arrivals
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, large numbers of people from northern and western Europe traveled in overcrowded ships to immigrate to the United States. They arrived to escape famine and religious discrimination, to b... |
ca2db294f196663aeab386d0fe0ecb5b | https://www.history.com/news/emancipation-proclamation-copy-signed-by-lincoln-for-sale | Emancipation Proclamation Copy Signed by Lincoln for Sale | Emancipation Proclamation Copy Signed by Lincoln for Sale
When Abraham Lincoln signed an executive order proclaiming the emancipation of slaves held in states “in rebellion against the United States” in January 1863, he created one of American history’s most iconic documents. Several autographed copies of the Emancipat... |
0a7a5974f1fc131a28971543ef2cea09 | https://www.history.com/news/end-wwii-race-to-berlin-1945-atomic-scientists | As the Allies Closed in on Hitler, They Jockeyed for Future World Dominance | As the Allies Closed in on Hitler, They Jockeyed for Future World Dominance
In the final months of World War II, as Nazi Germany began to crumble, capturing Berlin had become the ultimate political and military prize. For the Allies—Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union—this was the chance to take the symboli... |
e2959223a30138630642da0a54b2368e | https://www.history.com/news/england-divorce-18th-century-wife-auction | English Men Once Sold Their Wives Instead of Getting Divorced | English Men Once Sold Their Wives Instead of Getting Divorced
George Wray tied a halter around his wife’s waist and headed to the nearest market. He wasn’t there to buy anything—he was there to sell his wife.
Onlookers shouted as he auctioned her off to the highest bidder, William Harwood. After Harwood turned over a s... |
9a25625b5d510d78012498b3298e56e6 | https://www.history.com/news/entire-army-sacrificed-in-denmark-returns-to-the-surface | Entire Army Sacrificed in Denmark Returns to the Surface | Entire Army Sacrificed in Denmark Returns to the Surface
Two thousand years ago, Roman expansion thrust Germanic Europe into turmoil, sparking conflicts between tribes and spurring groups to militarize. It was during this turbulent era, right around the birth of Jesus Christ, that hundreds of warriors died en masse on ... |
9307dbeb41e3a940d7572dd9b07aeeff | https://www.history.com/news/epa-earth-day-cleveland-cuyahoga-river-fire-clean-water-act | The Shocking River Fire That Fueled the Creation of the EPA | The Shocking River Fire That Fueled the Creation of the EPA
Fires were nothing out of the ordinary on Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River in the 1960s. The city was still a manufacturing hub and the river, which empties into Lake Erie, had long been a dumping place for sewage and industrial waste.
But on June 22, 1969, a spark ... |
1f5517dc95141435ed543bed08693f09 | https://www.history.com/news/equal-rights-amendment-fail-phyllis-schlafly | Why the Fight Over the Equal Rights Amendment Has Lasted Nearly a Century | Why the Fight Over the Equal Rights Amendment Has Lasted Nearly a Century
Should men and women have equal rights under the law in the United States? It’s a simple question with a seemingly simple solution—a Constitutional amendment that guarantees that equal rights shall not be abridged on the basis of sex. But as the ... |
5d4b56fa4b6175f03054a2389f036d3a | https://www.history.com/news/escape-from-alcatraz-june-11-1962 | Escape From Alcatraz: June 11, 1962 | Escape From Alcatraz: June 11, 1962
Originally built as a naval defense fortification in the 1850s, the facility on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay housed military prisoners from 1861 to 1933, after which the U.S. Army transferred control to the Department of Justice. The new federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Islan... |
2c95852e21287e414faedba1d456cfed | https://www.history.com/news/european-unions-throughout-history | European Unions Throughout History | European Unions Throughout History
The Roman Empire (27 B.C.-476 A.D.) Rome was the first empire with the strength and manpower to unite the continent. Starting with the unification of the Italian peninsula in 275 B.C., the Romans expanded for nearly 400 years. In 117 A.D., at the death of Emperor Trajan, Rome controll... |
576c5dae805f672235be822f0215851f | https://www.history.com/news/europes-oldest-natural-mummy-has-living-relatives | Europe’s Oldest Natural Mummy Has Living Relatives | Europe’s Oldest Natural Mummy Has Living Relatives
The study, published in the journal Science, linked Ötzi with his living relatives by tracing a rare genetic mutation on the Y-chromosome. The mutation, known as G-L91, is passed down along the male line, and scientists at Austria’s Institute for Forensic Medicine have... |
5318e4da26d27c8b3f2bcbb7a4968b51 | https://www.history.com/news/evel-live-pastrana-three-jumps-evel-knievel-cars-buses-fountain | Everything You Need to Know About Travis Pastrana's Evel Knievel Jumps | Everything You Need to Know About Travis Pastrana's Evel Knievel Jumps
Three jumps. One night. Two legends.
Travis Pastrana has more than earned his reputation as a bonafide action-sport icon. One of the most decorated freestyle athletes in X Games history, he’s the motocross champion who simultaneously dropped million... |
3d77cf9d5cb9dd993e4c9328998d64de | https://www.history.com/news/evel-live-travis-pastrana-evel-knievel-three-jumps-las-vegas | Travis Pastrana Nails All Three of Evel Knievel's Historic Jumps | Travis Pastrana Nails All Three of Evel Knievel's Historic Jumps
At the end of the day, Travis Pastrana made leaping over 52 cars, 16 buses and the notorious fountain at Caesars Palace on two wheels look easy. Even in 100-plus-degree weather. Even using a heavy, stiff, flat-track bike unlike anything the action-sports ... |
77b59342cd4c1d4c12537e3d9568c439 | https://www.history.com/news/evidence-of-fabled-viking-navigational-tool-found | Evidence of Fabled Viking Navigational Tool Found | Evidence of Fabled Viking Navigational Tool Found
According to legend, Viking raiders used a mythic tool known as a sunstone to navigate the rough northern seas during their long journeys across unfamiliar waters. The device would have allowed them to pinpoint the sun even when it was veiled by dense clouds and fog. Hi... |
6d3daaeeb184bd758e761002b5bdbd2e | https://www.history.com/news/evidence-of-gruesome-ancient-ritual-unearthed-in-denmark | Evidence of Gruesome Ancient Ritual Unearthed in Denmark | Evidence of Gruesome Ancient Ritual Unearthed in Denmark
The new discoveries at Alken Enge come on the heels of excavations from 2012, when a team of archeologists from Denmark’s Aarhus University, Skanderborg Museum and Moesgaard Museum found dozens of ancient skeletons that had been dumped in a lake near the town of ... |
e4858914dd87f325667dffa7b3fe1037 | https://www.history.com/news/evidence-of-major-ancient-roman-shipyard-found | Evidence of Major Ancient Roman Shipyard Found | Evidence of Major Ancient Roman Shipyard Found
[slideshow exclude=”4065,4056,4083″]Archaeologists believe they’ve uncovered a major shipyard from the second century A.D. on the site of Rome’s ancient port, the University of Southampton announced today. A massive building recently excavated by the international team was... |
218c0bd5c4f0e4d38bf9299ffe48d0b2 | https://www.history.com/news/evidence-of-prehistoric-massacre-could-extend-warfare-timeline | Evidence of Prehistoric Massacre Could Extend Warfare Timeline | Evidence of Prehistoric Massacre Could Extend Warfare Timeline
In prehistoric times, the shoreline of Kenya’s Lake Turkana was a lush place with plentiful drinking water, ample fishing and a menagerie of giraffes, zebras and elephants. The marshlands bordered by forest made for an ideal camping ground for prehistoric h... |
66c5144c03c53daf22b331f6a4ba4591 | https://www.history.com/news/experts-stunned-by-ct-scan-of-tiny-mummy | Experts Stunned By CT Scan of Tiny Mummy | Experts Stunned By CT Scan of Tiny Mummy
As part of an ongoing redevelopment of the Ancient Civilizations gallery at the Maidstone Museum in Maidstone, Kent, England, experts at the Kent Institute of Medicine and Surgery (KIMS) have recently performed Computerized Tomography (CT) scans of a number of the museum’s ancie... |
f3910b2366055f45bd7097f6e324feb9 | https://www.history.com/news/faces-of-drowned-civil-war-sailors-from-uss-monitor-reconstructed | Faces of Drowned Civil War Sailors From USS Monitor Reconstructed | Faces of Drowned Civil War Sailors From USS Monitor Reconstructed
In August 2002, the rusty iron gun turret of the USS Monitor reemerged from the Atlantic Ocean, concluding a series of large-scale expeditions to the Civil War ship’s wreck site. Recovery workers found a pair of skeletons inside the 120-ton artifact—the ... |
d2b5a175946c98067b60c21d0e3df912 | https://www.history.com/news/famous-antique-forgeries | Five Famous Antique Forgeries | Five Famous Antique Forgeries
Until recently, an elaborate secretary (i.e., a desk with drawers) built to honor a Union soldier, John Bingham, stood on display in the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. A detail on the secretary’s front specified where Bingham had died—Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862—and a note from ... |
0e435d4e5194de2a9613c923b7e4df4e | https://www.history.com/news/famous-wild-west-outlaws-billy-the-kid-jesse-james-butch-cassidy | 5 Legendary Wild West Outlaws | 5 Legendary Wild West Outlaws
Train robberies. Horse thievery. Cattle rustling. Shootouts. Cold-blooded murder.
The most notorious outlaws of the Wild West have long been romanticized as daring robbers and swashbuckling killers since their stories first hit early American tabloids. In many ways, their narratives have b... |
49cdba7fa395c190639c1a4069bdc18d | https://www.history.com/news/fast-facts-on-the-first-100-days | Fast Facts on the “First 100 Days” | Fast Facts on the “First 100 Days”
Why 100 Days? The 100-days concept is believed to have its roots in France, where the concept of “Cent Jours” (Hundred Days) refers to the period of 1815 between Napoleon Bonaparte’s return to Paris from exile on the island of Elba and his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, after... |
79919905e0a1ae476b93779125c33074 | https://www.history.com/news/fdr-memorial-opens-in-new-york | FDR Memorial Opens in New York | FDR Memorial Opens in New York
On Wednesday, almost 40 years after it was first proposed, a new memorial honoring Franklin D. Roosevelt opened in New York City. Perched on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, Four Freedoms Park takes its name from the theme of the president’s 1941 State of the Union address, in which ... |
e47f966e1bbb3e1ee2b909dbaa16f7e5 | https://www.history.com/news/fdr-saudi-arabia-king-oil | How FDR Charmed a Saudi King and Won U.S. Access to Oil | How FDR Charmed a Saudi King and Won U.S. Access to Oil
A secret war-time meeting. Fear of an oil shortage. An exchange of gifts (including a wheelchair) and a budding friendship. When Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Abdul Aziz ibn Saud on February 14, 1945 aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Suez Canal, it was the firs... |
841320fd3bd80948d64da04fce3688d8 | https://www.history.com/news/federalism-constitution-founding-fathers-states-rights | How Federalism Settled States vs Federal Rights | How Federalism Settled States vs Federal Rights
When the 13 United States of America declared independence from the United Kingdom in 1776, the founders were attempting to break free from the tyranny of Britain’s top-down centralized government.
But the first constitution the founders created, the Articles of Confedera... |
7375d0c213bd086b705437d109d052ee | https://www.history.com/news/female-spies-civil-war-mary-bowser-elizabeth-van-lew | How a Black Spy Infiltrated the Confederate White House | How a Black Spy Infiltrated the Confederate White House
Confederate President Jefferson Davis occupied an anxious home in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War. A steady leak of information dripped from the highest ranks of the Confederacy to the Union. Davis was wary of a mole in his house, but had no idea how to s... |
a96df87b61f03271c71e854c70e8c20c | https://www.history.com/news/female-viking-warrior-slavic | Female ‘Viking’ Warrior May Actually Be Axe-Wielding Slavic Fighter | Female ‘Viking’ Warrior May Actually Be Axe-Wielding Slavic Fighter
A female warrior long assumed to be a Viking may actually be a Slavic warrior woman who migrated to Denmark from present-day Poland over 1,000 years ago, says a researcher in Germany. The discovery comes amid debate about the role and prevalence of fem... |
0a1c6ac6630d0b3b63c41b8b686f08ab | https://www.history.com/news/ferdinand-porsches-first-car-was-electric | Ferdinand Porsche’s First Car Was Electric | Ferdinand Porsche’s First Car Was Electric
Born in Maffersdorf, Austria in 1875, Ferdinand Porsche was expected to become a craftsman like his father, a master tinsmith. Instead, he developed a passion for the field of electricity, and went to Vienna in 1893 to apprentice at an electrical engineering firm. He quickly r... |
c4d48e579c3a793912b7600a661dcac9 | https://www.history.com/news/fidel-castros-wild-new-york-visit-55-years-ago | Fidel Castro’s Wild New York Visit | Fidel Castro’s Wild New York Visit
Fidel Castro had previously visited New York in April 1959, just four months after he led his victorious guerilla army into Havana and took charge of Cuba. The trip was part of Castro’s victory lap after toppling the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, and he’d made the most of it by h... |
0c37fc3853e89a7e5c4ae554a8daf855 | https://www.history.com/news/fifty-years-ago-the-food-of-the-kennedy-white-house | Fifty Years Ago: The Food of the Kennedy White House | Fifty Years Ago: The Food of the Kennedy White House
This past week, history has taken a center stage, as newspapers, online publications and television programs mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy Jr. In that spirit, this week, Hungry History is taking a special look back at the... |
5ce9abbbf299dbac536c43387bc21c65 | https://www.history.com/news/fighting-to-save-rosie-the-riveters-factory | Fighting to Save Rosie the Riveter’s Factory | Fighting to Save Rosie the Riveter’s Factory
From 1940 to 1945, the female percentage of the U.S. work force increased from 27 percent to nearly 37 percent, and by the end of that period nearly one out of every four married women worked outside the home. In 1943, the aircraft industry alone employed more than 310,000 w... |
e44af04b5a9ad95f5023f4bd7d8cd34e | https://www.history.com/news/filipino-americans-veterans-day | Filipino Americans Fought With U.S. in WWII, Then Had to Fight for Veterans Benefits | Filipino Americans Fought With U.S. in WWII, Then Had to Fight for Veterans Benefits
On an early December morning in 1941, waves of Japanese bombers roared through American airspace. While air sirens wailed and guns blazed, American nationals took cover as a surprise attack in the Pacific sank U.S. battleships and crip... |
1d6f4c38663279e1cef9c46f4d3e3bab | https://www.history.com/news/final-jfk-files-assassination-documents-release?fbclid=IwAR1YoqYw8HmTp5XUabV30lg_T5Z3LL8YF5Zbz7Nkl9g-hbd7wbRzUNeKbqo | Trump Holds Some JFK Assassination Files Back, Sets New 3-Year Deadline | Trump Holds Some JFK Assassination Files Back, Sets New 3-Year Deadline
The public has waited nearly 26 years for the last classified documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to be released. But it looks like we’ll have to keep waiting, due to a decision by the Trump administration to withhol... |
ed441ca545b576fcbb83a984751de11c | https://www.history.com/news/find-of-worlds-oldest-fossil-could-alter-timeline-for-life-on-earth | Find of World’s Oldest Fossil Could Alter Timeline for Life on Earth | Find of World’s Oldest Fossil Could Alter Timeline for Life on Earth
At the edge of an icecap in July 2012, Allen Nutman of Australia’s University of Wollongong and a group of fellow geologists picked through the oldest known rocks on Earth. The team of Australian and British scientists was surveying the landscape of t... |
e2a37cd352949d1f2a53c204daae5e86 | https://www.history.com/news/first-10-us-presidents | The First 10 Presidents of the United States and What They Accomplished | The First 10 Presidents of the United States and What They Accomplished
On February 4, 1789, electors chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States. Washington’s term, and those of the next 10 presidents, would prove to be a critical six decades in American history.
Previously, states had gover... |
1840629d00360429de3d2fc57b555d9d | https://www.history.com/news/first-alien-abduction-account-barney-betty-hill | How Betty and Barney Hill's Alien Abduction Story Defined the Genre | How Betty and Barney Hill's Alien Abduction Story Defined the Genre
Is it chasing us? That thought coursed through Betty and Barney Hill’s minds as they drove down the empty winding country road in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. It was a September night in 1961, they hadn’t seen a car for miles, and a strange light i... |
c6f85768c6e6f2d0d20d62477f640a38 | https://www.history.com/news/first-black-nfl-player | Meet Kenny Washington, the First Black NFL Player of the Modern Era | Meet Kenny Washington, the First Black NFL Player of the Modern Era
The Past in Color features the work of colorist Marina Amaral, bringing to life black and white photos with color applied digitally.
LAPD officer. Bit-part Hollywood star. Nixon supporter. Trailblazer for racial integration. Kenny Washington had an eve... |
31df6249d46e254cd38839e3ac317e74 | https://www.history.com/news/first-civil-rights-murder-harry-harriette-moore-florida | The Unsolved Mystery of the First People Killed During the Civil Rights Movement | The Unsolved Mystery of the First People Killed During the Civil Rights Movement
It was a double celebration: Christmas, and the Moores’ 25th anniversary. Harry T. and Harriette Moore celebrated the way they had 25 years before, cutting the cake together like newlyweds. They had no idea that the tender moment would be ... |
ee5373bff6f23edbb7d72c8b6c20460f | https://www.history.com/news/first-man-moon-cost-lives-kennedy-armstrong | How Landing the First Man on the Moon Cost Dozens of Lives | How Landing the First Man on the Moon Cost Dozens of Lives
A half-century ago, NASA was preparing feverishly for a moon landing in a race against the former Soviet Union. The non-stop campaign of testing and launches was also a race against time—specifically to honor slain president John F. Kennedy’s 1961 pledge for th... |
eb6c411ee94f64decfef450e0d08d63a | https://www.history.com/news/first-map-of-entire-titanic-wreck-site-sheds-new-light-on-disaster | First Map of Entire Titanic Wreck Site Sheds New Light on Disaster | First Map of Entire Titanic Wreck Site Sheds New Light on Disaster
[slideshow exclude=”6882″]Discovered off the coast of Newfoundland in 1985, Titanic’s wreckage has been the subject of much fascination and debate for over a quarter of a century. But even after 25 years, nearly half of the wreck site remained completel... |
17f935f4a901fb258105aea9e89845c9 | https://www.history.com/news/first-mardi-gras-mobile-alabama-new-orleans | Where Was the First Mardi Gras? | Where Was the First Mardi Gras?
If you thought Mardi Gras—that annual celebration that marks the last day before the Christian season of Lent—began in New Orleans, you’re clearly not from Alabama.
Although The Big Easy in Louisiana is perhaps best-known for its Mardi Gras revelry, the port city of Mobile, Alabama, foun... |
da6624bea4bff74482a9f62c55edf348 | https://www.history.com/news/first-plague-outbreak-united-states-california | The First Plague Outbreak in the United States Was Met With Denial | The First Plague Outbreak in the United States Was Met With Denial
At the turn of the 20th century, the world was gripped by a plague pandemic that had spread from China to port cities around the globe. So when a 41-year-old San Franciscan named Wong Chut King died of a particularly violent disease in March 1900, there... |
8a3fb6539f6a89ec27a191dbadf57352 | https://www.history.com/news/first-social-security-check | How Much Did the First-Ever Social Security Check Pay Out? | How Much Did the First-Ever Social Security Check Pay Out?
Little did Ida May Fuller know she would find a piece of history inside her mailbox when she opened it on a February day in 1940. When the 65-year-old retiree and lifelong Republican lifted the lid of the mailbox outside the front door of her Ludlow, Vermont, h... |
47cccd9d22177fe82d060ee8c65e58f8 | https://www.history.com/news/first-thanksgiving-colonists-native-americans-men | Who Was at the First Thanksgiving? | Who Was at the First Thanksgiving?
As families around the country prepare to gather with family, eat turkey and perhaps partake in some Black Friday shopping, they might be surprised to learn how much we don’t know about the origins of the Thanksgiving.
Nearly all of what historians have learned about the first Thanksg... |
268138cba8df1fc5ae7aee3aa1296fd6 | https://www.history.com/news/first-transatlantic-flight-nonstop-alcock-brown | The First Nonstop Flight Across the Atlantic Lasted 16 Harrowing Hours | The First Nonstop Flight Across the Atlantic Lasted 16 Harrowing Hours
When it was all over, Captain John Alcock, an English pilot, telegraphed his story to newspaper reporters around the world. He was exhausted by a recent in-air ordeal that had culminated in a risky plane crash in Ireland along with his navigator and... |
16f8cc6a1f98e4fbc7c1001abd9ad872 | https://www.history.com/news/first-viking-temple-in-1000-years-coming-to-iceland | First Viking Temple in 1,000 Years Coming to Iceland | First Viking Temple in 1,000 Years Coming to Iceland
When the Vikings first settled in Iceland in the 9th century, they brought with them a deep devotion to a pantheon on Norse gods. Wooden carvings of deities such as Odin, Thor, Freyr and Frigg adorned their temples, and Viking warriors charged into battle confident t... |
a330d5cb0cdad263a4470cc7c1a518a0 | https://www.history.com/news/first-woman-to-circle-the-globe-honored-at-last | First Woman to Circle the Globe Honored at Last | First Woman to Circle the Globe Honored at Last
Born in 1740 in France’s Loire Valley, Jeanne Baret overcame her poverty-stricken childhood to circumnavigate the globe before any other woman in recorded history and play a key role in identifying hundreds of plant species. In the early 1760s she became the lover and ass... |
6e366157a90dcd714dc03a321a96d542 | https://www.history.com/news/flappers-roaring-20s-women-empowerment | How Flappers Redefined Womanhood (Hint: It Involved Jazz, Liquor and Sex) | How Flappers Redefined Womanhood (Hint: It Involved Jazz, Liquor and Sex)
No cultural symbol of the 1920s is more recognizable than the flapper. A young woman with a short “bob” hairstyle, cigarette dangling from her painted lips, dancing to a live jazz band. Flappers romped through the Roaring Twenties, enjoying the n... |
f9ae1296b06e05ea1ba73e6cf70b79f9 | https://www.history.com/news/flatwoods-monster-west-virginia | In 1952, the Flatwoods Monster Terrified 6 Kids, a Mom, a Dog—and the Nation | In 1952, the Flatwoods Monster Terrified 6 Kids, a Mom, a Dog—and the Nation
The Flatwoods Monster has not hissed at boys in the little village of Flatwoods, West Virginia, since Sept. 12, 1952.
People grin about it now—and take Monster souvenir money, from hundreds of Monster tourists every week. But it scared people ... |
996e63e9659526755c70536c02533a66 | https://www.history.com/news/flint-sit-down-strike-general-motors-uaw | The 1936 Strike That Brought America’s Most Powerful Automaker to its Knees | The 1936 Strike That Brought America’s Most Powerful Automaker to its Knees
The General Motors body plant in Flint, Michigan was usually a thankless place, filled with loud sounds and the feverish, dangerous work of turning metal into auto bodies. But in January 1937, the sounds of whistling and conversation filled the... |
e330b28463e3ac673aa1a6ce0f5beab6 | https://www.history.com/news/food-for-thought-the-seder-plate | Food for Thought: The Seder Plate | Food for Thought: The Seder Plate
The coming of Passover, a celebration that commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from their enslavement in Egypt—a story depicted in the biblical Book of Exodus—brings with it the annual ritual of loading up the Seder plate. The six items on the plate each hold a special meanin... |
b05163dd83d8f0ba0adcd7bf54d082bb | https://www.history.com/news/food-fraud-a-brief-history-of-the-adulteration-of-food | Food Fraud: A Brief History of the Adulteration of Food | Food Fraud: A Brief History of the Adulteration of Food
Since prehistoric times humans have altered the state of food to extend its longevity or improve its taste. At least as early as 300,000 years ago, early humans had harnessed fire to cook and conserve meat and, later, determined that salt could be added to preserv... |
511d91c097778f2bc40829c4196416c9 | https://www.history.com/news/food-stamps-great-depression | How Did Food Stamps Begin? | How Did Food Stamps Begin?
The U.S. food stamp program was launched at a time when the nation was facing a tragic paradox: As millions of Americans suffered from hunger during the Great Depression, the country’s farmers agonized under a crushing bounty. The economic collapse of the 1930s had sapped food consumers of th... |
b0747a47d6c8ae8d23229935dea1f208 | https://www.history.com/news/for-better-or-worse-running-of-the-bulls-comes-to-u-s | For Better or Worse, Running of the Bulls Comes to U.S. | For Better or Worse, Running of the Bulls Comes to U.S.
Named for the patron saint of Pamplona, Sanfermines has roots dating back to the Middle Ages in the Spanish region of Navarra. The festival evolved from the religious ceremonies held in honor of San Fermín in the 12th century, combined with later trade fairs held ... |
57c1f8ecdd38360716816aff416ac2c7 | https://www.history.com/news/for-history-to-be-written-it-has-to-be-made | For History to Be Written, It Has to Be Made | For History to Be Written, It Has to Be Made
In a year exhausted by one of the more frenetic news agendas in memory, an easily overlooked development has been the re-emergence of patient, persistent civic engagement and activism.
The massive marches that rang in the new year dispersed, but we didn’t go home. We packed ... |
2c5b8c324fe81720b4bc39a225ede93d | https://www.history.com/news/for-martin-luther-king-jr-nonviolent-protest-never-meant-wait-and-see | For Martin Luther King Jr., Nonviolent Protest Never Meant ‘Wait and See’ | For Martin Luther King Jr., Nonviolent Protest Never Meant ‘Wait and See’
On January 15, the United States celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 50 years on from his assassination in 1968. The intention behind the holiday is to commemorate this great man’s life, and recommit to his call to fight for justice everywher... |
8976dc60bdd7d1d0b31dbc38eceefea7 | https://www.history.com/news/for-perfect-teeth-start-hunting-and-gathering | For Perfect Teeth, Start Hunting and Gathering | For Perfect Teeth, Start Hunting and Gathering
Scientists have long theorized that the shift from a hunter-gatherer existence to agriculture—and, more specifically, the dietary changes that came with it—affected the development of the human skull and lower jaw. Groups practicing both lifestyles still exist in today’s w... |
8a4fe30e4c1df822c45feb3fee26252c | https://www.history.com/news/foreign-influence-constitution-founding-fathers | How the Constitution Protects Against Foreign Influence | How the Constitution Protects Against Foreign Influence
When the Founding Fathers met in Philadelphia during the 1787 Constitutional Convention, they represented a loosely held confederacy of Atlantic states recently freed from British rule. If the American experiment was going to work, the founding fathers knew that t... |
35f2e371792bd53331dbf2afee714165 | https://www.history.com/news/foreign-travel-was-once-taboo-for-american-presidents | Foreign Travel Was Once Taboo for American Presidents | Foreign Travel Was Once Taboo for American Presidents
One of the jobs of being a modern U.S. president is to make official state visits abroad. Both George W. Bush and Barack Obama visited dozens of countries during their respective terms, and Donald Trump is poised to do the same. Yet during the 1800s, the idea of a U... |
05a3b3a76d34aad689128328b6f9bd90 | https://www.history.com/news/founding-father-you-never-heard-of-caesar-rodney | Caesar Rodney: The Founding Father You've Never Heard Of | Caesar Rodney: The Founding Father You've Never Heard Of
He was a founding father, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and an American hero—but most have probably not heard of Caesar Rodney or his dramatic 18-hour midnight horseback ride to Philadelphia to cast a critical, deciding vote in favor of separating f... |
80454511ab87e061f8b446ddd434af8d | https://www.history.com/news/founding-fathers-political-parties-opinion?cmpid=email-hist-inside-history-2018-1108-11082018&om_rid=a5c05684deeced71f4f5e60641ae2297e798a5442a7ed66345b78d5bc371021b&om_mid=482781065&kx_EmailCampaignID=25234&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-inside-history-2018-1108-11082018&kx_EmailRecipient... | The Founding Fathers Feared Political Factions Would Tear the Nation Apart | The Founding Fathers Feared Political Factions Would Tear the Nation Apart
Today, it may seem impossible to imagine the U.S. government without its two leading political parties, Democrats and Republicans. But in 1787, when delegates to the Constitutional Convention gathered in Philadelphia to hash out the foundations ... |
e5e69b6def073b74145bee3ac0b1386b | https://www.history.com/news/frank-cali-mafia-murder-john-gotti-paul-castellano-gambino | When a Mob Boss Out for a Steak Dinner Was Murdered in Cold Blood | When a Mob Boss Out for a Steak Dinner Was Murdered in Cold Blood
Just before 5:30 on a December evening in 1985, mob boss Paul Castellano stepped out of a limo in front of Sparks Steakhouse in midtown Manhattan and was shot to death. The four assassins who gunned him down were conspicuously dressed in trench coats and... |
84724f218a91347571790a2de7ec123b | https://www.history.com/news/frank-sinatra-mob-ties-fbi-file | Frank Sinatra’s Mob Ties and Other Secrets from His FBI File | Frank Sinatra’s Mob Ties and Other Secrets from His FBI File
Frank Sinatra was many things: A crooner who could make bobby-soxers faint, an Academy Award-winning actor, the elder statesman of the Rat Pack. At the height of his career, it was rumored that “every woman wants to have him; every man wants to be him.” But h... |
83086857244abee0d86c433771d70111 | https://www.history.com/news/frankenstein-true-story-mary-shelley | ‘Frankenstein’ Was Born During a Ghastly Vacation | ‘Frankenstein’ Was Born During a Ghastly Vacation
Thunder, lightning and flickering candles. It sounds like the stuff of a horror story—and for Mary Shelley, it was. She wrote her masterpiece Frankenstein when she was just 19 years old, and the dark, stormy summer nights that helped bring her monstrous creation to life... |
db27b5d33f9b82086a7fe80de8dbfa3c | https://www.history.com/news/franklin-d-roosevelt-health-final-term | Why FDR Decided to Run for a Fourth Term Despite Ill Health | Why FDR Decided to Run for a Fourth Term Despite Ill Health
At the outset of 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt was entering his 12th year as president of the United States.
The popular Democratic leader had steered his country through the Great Depression with his groundbreaking New Deal programs, and won an unprecedented th... |
ef884d64aaa064d6fd15618909ba0d6f | https://www.history.com/news/franklin-expedition-mystery-northwest-passage | What Happened to the Doomed Franklin Expedition? These Are the Clues | What Happened to the Doomed Franklin Expedition? These Are the Clues
On May 19, 1845, the HMS Erebus with its sister ship HMS Terror sailed out of the River Thames, carrying 128 officers and men under the command of Sir John Franklin. Their mission: to locate and transit the fabled Northwest Passage, the long-sought pa... |
94d46320663a1ec599afbf4ce33fe9dc | https://www.history.com/news/frederick-douglass-bicentennial | Why Frederick Douglass Matters | Why Frederick Douglass Matters
Frederick Douglass sits in the pantheon of Black history figures: Born into slavery, he made a daring escape north, wrote best-selling autobiographies and went on to become one of the nation’s most powerful voices against human bondage. He stands as the most influential civil and human ri... |
ddba4247d5ae8976602ea410ce61cafc | https://www.history.com/news/frederick-douglass-book-omissions-autobiography | What Frederick Douglass Revealed—and Omitted—in His Famous Autobiographies | What Frederick Douglass Revealed—and Omitted—in His Famous Autobiographies
Frederick Douglass, the most influential black man in 19th-century America, wrote 1,200 pages of autobiography, one of the most impressive performances of memoir in the nation’s history. The three texts included Narrative of the Life of Frederic... |
008ed8050e1c44bdf4ff19ee433eb02e | https://www.history.com/news/frederick-douglass-meeting-former-master | Frederick Douglass’s Emotional Meeting With the Man Who Enslaved Him | Frederick Douglass’s Emotional Meeting With the Man Who Enslaved Him
As Frederick Douglass approached the bed of Thomas Auld, tears came to his eyes. He had not seen Auld for years, and now that they were reunited, both men could not stop crying. Douglass and Auld clasped hands and spoke of past and future, confronting... |
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