How Puerto Rican Baseball Icon Roberto Clemente Left a Legacy Off the FieldThe Pittsburgh Pirates’ star—the first Latino Hall of Famer in baseball—was a hero for his charity work and social activism prior to his death in a 1972 plane crash.Read more
7 of the Greatest Hail Mary Passes of All TimeColorado’s Kordell Stewart called his 64-yard, game-winning touchdown pass against Michigan in 1994 ‘a gift from God.’Read more
Why Black Cats Are Associated With Halloween and Bad LuckAs early as the 13th century, the Catholic Church linked cats to Satan.Read more
The Lithuanian Immigrant Who Launched the First Women’s College Basketball GameOn March 22, 1893, 15 months after Canadian-born James Naismith invented basketball, Senda Berenson pitted Smith College freshmen and sophomore teams against each other.Read more
Miracle of the Andes: How Survivors of the Flight Disaster Struggled to Stay AliveWhen an Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes on October 13, 1972, cannibalism helped some survive two months in harsh conditions.Read more
Why the Statue of Liberty Almost Didn’t Get BuiltAlthough France paid for the statue, the US had to pay for the pedestal.Read more
The Transcontinental Railroad’s Dark Costs: Exploited Labor, Stolen LandsChinese immigrant workers and Indigenous tribes paid a particularly high price.Read more
The Dramatic NFL Championship Game Nearly the Entire Country MissedOn Christmas Eve 1950, the Cleveland Browns beat the Los Angeles Rams in an epic matchup featuring 12 future Hall of Fame players. But the game wasn’t televised nationally, limiting its legacy.Read more
7 Famous Loyalists of the Revolutionary War EraFrom a son of Benjamin Franklin to a Mohawk leader to the governor of Massachusetts, these men chose to side with the British.Read more
The Most Dramatic Home Run in World Series HistoryIn the bottom of the ninth in Game 7 of the wild 1960 World Series, Bill Mazeroski of the underdog Pittsburgh Pirates toppled the mighty New York Yankees.Read more
How Did Baseball’s Seventh-Inning Stretch Originate?The American tradition might date to President William Howard Taft in 1910, but it could have started in 1869.Read more
8 Famous Figures Who Believed in Communicating with the DeadSpiritualism’s popularity waxed and waned throughout the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, and surged on the heels of major wars and pandemics.Read more