3+ hour, 17+ min ago  (552+ words) George Washington's presidency is known best for being the first, and then for establishing the tradition that presidents limit themselves to two terms. This standard held informally until Franklin Roosevelt was elected a third time in 1940, and a fourth in…...

6+ hour, 48+ min ago  (477+ words) Do we really need another book about the Lewis and Clark expedition? Over the past two centuries, hundreds of titles have charted the journey. And yet, after reading "This Vast Enterprise," by Craig Fehrman, my answer is an emphatic yes....

4+ day, 9+ min ago  (1809+ words) As a new luxury ocean liner, the Titanic attracted some of the wealthiest and most prominent members of American society. When the ship sank off the coast of Newfoundland on its maiden voyage to New York City in the early…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago  (1864+ words) The sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912, has captivated people for 114 years. The stories of survivors, the various explanations as to why it sank, the decadeslong search to find the wreck, and the multi-billion-dollar film released in 1997 have all contributed…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (1371+ words) John Jacob Astor IV was one of the wealthiest people in the world when he met a tragic end when the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912. His life was marked by amazing innovations, wealth, and scandal. Astor's young, pregnant wife " 30 years…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (799+ words) For decades, the fierce desert wind has been the only thing moving with any speed at the former Minidoka, Idaho, internment camp, other than an occasional car passing the site where more than 13, 000 Japanese Americans were held behind barbed wire…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (827+ words) Neville Waters III stepped through two of D. C. s oldest Black cemeteries on a recent spring morning, surveying overgrown weeds and broken and decaying headstones marking the grave sites of at least 10, 000 enslaved and free African Americans. "My blood was a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (241+ words) It is true Mary suffered from mental illness and could have a temper. It is also true that her husband, who himself struggled with depression, may well have never become president without her. Even her harshest critics acknowledged that her…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (623+ words) Talk about buried tea. Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a stash of 3, 000-year-old papyrus scrolls " and whatever's written on them is still under wraps. The rare find, discovered in a pottery vessel on Luxor's West Bank, dates back to the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1030+ words) Norman Bussel, who survived the destruction of his B-17 bomber during an air raid over Berlin in 1944, endured a year in a German prisoner-of-war camp and, after retirement, spoke and wrote extensively about the underappreciated trauma experienced by the soldiers, sailors…...