UN General Assembly UN Leader Dag Hammarskjold Died in Mysterious Circumstances in 1961. What Really Happened?history.com - By Sarah Pruitt Shortly after midnight on September 18, 1961, a chartered DC-6 airplane carrying United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold on a peacekeeping …
Napoleon Bonaparte Why Napoleon Kidnapped One Pope After Anotherhistory.com - By Una McIlvenna Between the hours of 2 and 3 on the morning of July 6, 1809, French troops under the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte scaled the walls of the gardens of …
History 5 Reasons Why Woodstock '69 Became Legendaryhistory.com - By History.com Editors Before mid-August in 1969, no one knew just how big the Woodstock music festival would become. It was organized by people who had originally just …
History How Towns Around Woodstock Pushed to Cancel the Hippie Takeoverhistory.com - By Erin Blakemore Joseph G. Owen wasn’t exactly the target market for the Woodstock festival. But when he saw a sign advertising “3 Days of Peace & Music” while on …
History America's History of Slavery Began Long Before Jamestownhistory.com - By Crystal Ponti In late August 1619, the White Lion, an English privateer commanded by John Jope, sailed into Point Comfort and dropped anchor in the James River. …
Homework How the Cold War Space Race Led to U.S. Students Doing Tons of Homeworkhistory.com - By Dave Roos Middle-schoolers who trudge home each day with a 50-pound backpack and hours of homework would have had an easier time in 1901. That’s when the …
History The Many Places Claiming to Be the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’history.com - By Becky Little Want to visit the original Seven Wonders of the World? Unfortunately you can’t, because only one of them exists anymore. The original list—sometimes …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoRome How Far Did Ancient Rome Spread?history.com - By Becky Little Legend has it that Romulus and Remus—twin brothers who were also demi-gods—founded Rome on the River Tiber in 753 B.C. Over the next eight and a half …
History How the Immigration Act of 1965 Changed the Face of Americahistory.com - By Lesley Kennedy When the U.S. Congress passed—and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law—the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, the move was largely …
History How Fear of a WWII Invasion Gave Rise to Smokey the Bearhistory.com - By Erin Blakemore “Remember Pearl Harbor!” “Loose Lips Might Sink Ships.” Those are among the most famous slogans of World War II. But another poster child birthed …
Andrew Jackson How Andrew Jackson Rode a Populist Wave to Become America's First 'Outsider' Presidenthistory.com - By Dave Roos The “outsider” candidate running against “Washington insiders” has become a familiar figure on both ends of the political spectrum. But back in the …
History What Type of Criminal Are You? 19th-Century Doctors Claimed to Know by Your Facehistory.com - By Becky Little Can you tell who a criminal is just by looking at them? No you can’t, but that didn’t stop the idea from gaining traction in the late 19th century. …
Charles Manson How Spahn Ranch Became a Headquarters for the Manson Family Culthistory.com - By Lesley Kennedy Spahn Ranch was once used as a Hollywood TV and movie set for family-friendly productions, including “Bonanza” and “The Lone Ranger,” but the …
History Viking 'Drinking Hall' Uncovered in Scotlandhistory.com - By Sarah Pruitt Archaeologists in the Orkney Islands, off the northeastern coast of Scotland, have uncovered the ruins of what they think is a Viking drinking hall …
History 10 Things You May Not Know About the Jamestown Colonyhistory.com - By Crystal Ponti In May of 1607, a hearty group of Englishmen arrived on the muddy shores of modern-day Virginia under orders from King James I to establish an …
History How the Mayflower Compact Laid a Foundation for American Democracyhistory.com - By Sarah Pruitt On the morning of November 11, 1620, when the Mayflower dropped its anchor off the coast of Cape Cod, the group of English Separatists later known as …
History 6 Major Breakthroughs in Hunter-Gatherer Toolshistory.com - By Sarah Pruitt Humans weren’t the first to make or use stone tools. That honor appears to belong to the ancient species that lived on the shores of Lake Turkana, in …
Kellogg How an Accidental Invention Changed What Americans Eat for Breakfasthistory.com - By Sarah Pruitt As the 19th century gave way to the 20th, Americans woke up to a new kind of breakfast. Poured from a box into a bowl and doused with milk, cold …
Kellogg Dr. John Kellogg Invented Cereal. Some of His Other Wellness Ideas Were Much Weirderhistory.com - By Greg Daugherty Battle Creek Sanitarium, America’s most popular medical spa of the early 20th century, may be best known as the birthplace of the corn flake. But …
Bacon Why America’s First Colonial Rebels Burned Jamestown to the Groundhistory.com - By Erin Blakemore Jamestown had once been the bustling capital of the Colony of Virginia. Now it was a smoldering ruin, and Nathaniel Bacon was on the run. Charismatic …
History 9 Ancient Sumerian Inventions That Changed the Worldhistory.com - By Patrick J. Kiger The ancient Sumerians, who flourished thousands of years ago between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what today is southern Iraq, built a …
Rabbits Why Are Rabbits—And Rabbits' Feet—Considered Good Luck Symbols?history.com - By Becky Little If you go on Twitter during the first of the month, you may notice “rabbit rabbit” trending. That’s because of a superstition that if your first …
Anne Frank Who Betrayed Anne Frank?history.com - By Evan Andrews On August 4, 1944, police in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam raided a warehouse and arrested eight Jews who were hiding in an annex disguised behind a …
Anne Frank How Anne Frank’s Private Diary Became an International Sensationhistory.com - By Erin Blakemore Usually, the upper floors of the office building at 263 Prinsengracht were silent. But on August 4, 1944, they came to terrible life. Miep Gies never …
Sunni Islam Islam's Sunni-Shia Divide, Explainedhistory.com - By Sarah Pruitt Though the two main sects within Islam, Sunni and Shia, agree on most of the fundamental beliefs and practices of Islam, a bitter split between the …
History What’s the Difference Between Puritans and Pilgrims?history.com - By Dave Roos Many Americans get the Pilgrims and the Puritans mixed up. Common thinking is: They were both groups of English religious reformers. They both landed …
Thomas Jefferson Why Thomas Jefferson Rewrote the Bible Without Jesus' Miracles and Resurrectionhistory.com - By Erin Blakemore The ex-president bent over the book, using a razor and scissors to carefully cut out small squares of text. Soon, the book’s words would live in …
Military History The July Plot: When German Elites Tried to Kill Hitlerhistory.com - By Jesse Greenspan Roughly 200 German resisters participated in “Operation Valkyrie,” the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and overthrow the Nazi …
Henry Viii Naked Cooks, Excrement, Rats: The Secretly Disgusting History of Royal Palaceshistory.com - By Hadley Meares In July of 1535, King Henry VIII and his court of over 700 people embarked on an epic official tour. Over the next four months the massive entourage …
History Andrew Carnegie Claimed to Support Unions, But Then Destroyed Them in His Steel Empirehistory.com - By Christopher Klein With his quintessential rags-to-riches story, Andrew Carnegie embodied the American Dream. After poverty drove his family out of Scotland in 1848, …
