11 Ways People Beat the Heat Before Air ConditioningFrom sleeping outside, to installing windows designed for airflow, find out how people tried to stay cool during heat waves before AC.Read more
How a Black War Correspondent Fought to Tell the Story of the 761st Tank BattalionDuring WWII, Trezzvant Anderson embedded with the Army’s first Black tank squad to see combat. He deployed their stories in the broader fight for equality.Read more
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Daring Trip to WWII’s South Pacific War ZoneEleanor Roosevelt set off in secret for World War II’s Pacific Theater. Once there, she visited troops, traveling thousands of miles for five weeks.Read more
7 Everyday Objects From the Shang DynastyPeople living in this Bronze Age civilization crafted unique objects that shed light on life in ancient China some 3,200 years ago.Read more
Ancient Mysterious Script Finally DecodedArchaeologists decoded part of the ‘unknown’ writing system from the Kushan Empire using the same technique that helped decipher the Rosetta Stone.Read more
The WWI-Era Women’s Soccer Team Who Could Beat the MenDuring World War I, the Dick, Kerr Ladies soccer team drew huge crowds —until they were banned from stadiums.Read more
Who Was the First Convicted Murderer in America?John Billington, known as America’s first convicted murderer, had developed a reputation as a ‘knave’ among his fellow Plymouth colonists. Read more
8 Massive Ice Age Animals That Roamed North AmericaMany of these giant mammals may have been hunted into extinction as prehistoric humans expanded into North America.Read more
How the Beanie Baby Craze Came to a Crashing EndIn the 1990s, hysteria over Ty Inc’s $5 plush toys fed a wave of theft, fraud and market manipulation. Values soared—then plummeted.Read more
The Atomic Bomb’s First Victims Were in New MexicoThe Manhattan Project’s Trinity test—the first atomic bomb detonation—led to infant deaths, cancer and decades of health problems.Read more
How Lewis Strauss Shaped the Atomic Age—and Orchestrated Robert Oppenheimer’s DownfallAmateur physicist Lewis Strauss spurred the hydrogen bomb’s development—and became Robert Oppenheimer’s nemesis.Read more
Alexander the Great: 6 Key Battles and a SiegeHere’s how Alexander, one of history’s most iconic military leaders, grew the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia and conquered the Persian Empire.Read more