Audrey Hepburn aided the Dutch Resistance during World War II as a teenager. Hepburn became one of Hollywood’s biggest stars ...

World War II began just five months after the Spanish Civil War ended. Here are five key ways the conflict in Spain foreshadowed what would become the largest and deadliest war in human history.

Born into a wealthy banking family in Hartford, Connecticut, J.P. Morgan followed his father into finance and became one of the most influential financiers of the Gilded Age. He r ...

On October 27, 1966, “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” makes its debut on CBS and delights American viewers. The animated special becomes a seasonal classic, watched by generations of families ...

It’s a grim calculation, counting those Americans who have died in service to their country, as targets of terrorist attacks, amid natural disasters or as victims of pandemic disease. Here are major ...

On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that as of January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in the states currently engaged in ...

A massive explosion of unknown origin sinks the battleship USS Maine in Cuba’s Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, killing more than 260 of the 350-plus American crew members aboard. One of the first ...

Halloween may be a secular affair today, dominated by candy, costumes and trick-or-treating, but the holiday is rooted in an annual Celtic pagan festival called Samhain (pronounced "SAH-wane") that ...

October was known as Winmonath (“wine month”) in Old England due to wine production at the time, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac. It was also called Winterfylleth (“winter full moon”), signaling ...

In 2017, several news organizations revealed the existence of the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a U.S. government-funded program that investigated unidentified flying ...

Assembly Required reunites Tim Allen with Richard Karn in this new competition series that spotlights the best and brightest builders from across the country, at their home workshops, as they compete ...