U.S. Navy Navy Confirms UFO Videos Are Real and Show Unidentified Aerial Phenomenahistory.com - By Becky Little The U.S. Navy has confirmed that three F-18 gun-camera videos first released by The New York Times and a UFO research organization show “unidentified …
Elizabeth I Why Royal Guests Have Always Been a Royal Painhistory.com - By Hadley Meares 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 …
History The Mendez Family Fought School Segregation 8 Years Before Brown v. Board of Edhistory.com - By Dave Roos Brown v. Board of Education was the landmark Supreme Court case that ended racial segregation in schools in 1954. But it wasn’t the first to take on …
Sunken Nazi Gold and 4 Other Never-Found Treasureshistory.com - By Eudie Pak Legend has it that the Nazis dumped billions of dollars worth of stolen gold—in the area of $5.6 billion—into the waters of Lake Toplitz, an isolated …
History The 1936 Strike That Brought America’s Most Powerful Automaker to its Kneeshistory.com - By Erin Blakemore The General Motors body plant in Flint, Michigan was usually a thankless place, filled with loud sounds and the feverish, dangerous work of turning …
Military History The Allies Hoped Operation Market Garden Would End WWII. Here's What Went Wronghistory.com - By Sarah Pruitt In the weeks following D-Day, German troops began retreating en masse, as Allied forces advanced across France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the …
Churchill Solid Gold Toilet Stolen From Winston Churchill’s Family Palacehistory.com - By Becky Little Someone is out there with a golden toilet that doesn’t belong to them. The 18-karat-gold toilet disappeared from Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of …
Tobacco 7 Ways People Have ‘Smoked’ Through Historyhistory.com - By Becky Little The emergence of vaping in the 21st century raised multiple concerns that the delivery system, which has held particular appeal among teens, is not …
Ancient History Ancient Roman Hand-Holding Skeletons Were Both Menhistory.com - By Lesley Kennedy Brothers? Friends? Soldiers? Life partners? Researchers don’t know the relationship between two individuals buried side-by-side holding hands. But …
Adolf Hitler When Hitler Tried (and Failed) to Be an Artisthistory.com - By Sarah Pruitt In early 1908, after the death of his mother, 18-year-old Adolf Hitler left his provincial hometown of Linz and moved to Vienna, the glamorous …
History September 11: Photos of the Worst Terrorist Attack on U.S. Soilhistory.com - By History.com Editors The September 11 attacks struck the nation on a clear, late summer morning on the East Coast. Hijackers used jet airliners as weapons and rammed them …
Military September 11: Six Ways Uncertainty Reigned Aboard Air Force Onehistory.com - By Amanda Onion On 9/11, millions of Americans became glued to their televisions, watching in horror as hijacked planes attacked the World Trade Center and the …
History Behind the 9/11 White House Order to Shoot Down U.S. Airliners: ‘It Had to be Done’history.com - By Garrett M. Graff It’s hard to imagine an American leader authorizing the shoot-down of civilian aircraft. But in the first hour following the attacks of September 11, …
U.S. Dept. of Defense How the Pentagon's Design Saved Lives on September 11history.com - By Dave Roos At 9:37 a.m. on September 11, 2001, a 62-year-old Pentagon employee and retired Air Force communications specialist was sitting in traffic west of …
Ancient History How Alexander the Great Conquered the Persian Empirehistory.com - By Dave Roos For more than two centuries, the Achaemenid Empire of Persia ruled the Mediterranean world. One of history’s first true super powers, the Persian …
History September 11 Attacks: Videoshistory.com - By History.com Editors On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 men hijacked four U.S. commercial airplanes that had taken off with full fuel tanks for the West Coast. The …
History Before Drafting the Bill of Rights, James Madison Argued the Constitution Was Fine Without Ithistory.com - By Lesley Kennedy Freedom of speech, religion and the press. The right to assemble, bear arms and due process. These are just some of the first 10 amendments that make …
History All the Category 5 Storms That Have Slammed the U.S.history.com - By Becky Little Category 5 is as powerful as a hurricane can get under the Saffir-Simpson scale. These monster storms pack wind speeds of 157 miles per hour or more. …
History Tulsa's 'Black Wall Street' Flourished as a Self-Contained Hub in Early 1900shistory.com - By Alexis Clark Before the Tulsa Race Massacre where the Oklahoma city’s black district of Greenwood was attacked by a white mob, resulting in two days of bloodshed …
Transcontinental Railroad 10 Ways the Transcontinental Railroad Changed Americahistory.com - By Patrick J. Kiger There was a time when traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant riding for months in a horse-drawn wagon or stagecoach, or sailing …
Hong Kong Island How Hong Kong Came Under 'One Country, Two Systems' Rulehistory.com - By Becky Little At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hong Kong returned to Chinese control after a century and a half of British colonial rule. The handover was meant to …
History Stunning Underwater Photos Reveal 1845 Shipwreck Frozen in Timehistory.com - By Sarah Pruitt In the frigid waters off King William’s Island, in northern Canada, the wreck of a ship belonging to British explorer Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated …
Lifestyle (Canada) 7 Ways the Printing Press Changed the Worldhistory.com - By Dave Roos Knowledge is power, as the saying goes, and the invention of the mechanical movable type printing press helped disseminate knowledge wider and faster …
History The Thorny History of Reparations in the United Stateshistory.com - By Erin Blakemore The papers were handed out one by one to the elderly recipients—most frail, some in wheelchairs. To some, it may have looked like a run-of-the-mill …
History How Did Food Stamps Begin?history.com - By Christopher Klein 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 …
History How a Deadly Railroad Strike Led to the Labor Day Holidayhistory.com - By Sarah Pruitt Today many Americans see Labor Day as time off from work, an opportunity to enjoy a barbecue with friends and family and a final moment of summertime …
Montreal Protocol This 1920s Inventor Sped Up Climate Change With His Chemical Creationshistory.com - By Joseph A. Williams Inventions through history have often made everyday tasks easier and some, like trains, the cotton gin, printing press, and computers, have been …
Military History After Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Spent Three Years Under Martial Lawhistory.com - By Erin Blakemore The night of December 7, 1941 was a panicked one in Hawaii. In the wake of Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaiian civilians struggled to …
U.S. Virgin Islands The U.S. Bought 3 Virgin Islands from Denmark. The Deal Took 50 Yearshistory.com - By Becky Little Every March 31, the U.S. Virgin Islands of Saint Thomas, Saint John and Saint Croix observe “Transfer Day” to commemorate the sale of the islands …
