History in the Headlines
Roster From Ben Franklin’s Fire Department Found 9 Tales of Broken Arrows: Thermonuclear Near Misses Throughout History Amelia Earhart’s Historic Landing, 80 Years Ago ‘Happy Birthday, Mr. President’ Turns 50 The Olympic Torch Relay’s Surprising Origins Arthritisaurus: Did Elderly Dinos Get Inflamed Joints? Prehistoric French Artistes Painted Earliest Wall Art Murder in Parliament, 200 Years Ago Oldest Known Mayan Calendar Debunks December 2012 Myth Perforated Skulls From Middle Ages Found in Spain 5 U.S. Presidents Who Taught School The Hindenburg Disaster: 9 Surprising Facts 7 Things You May Not Know About Cinco de Mayo Killer Fish Rebellatrix Not Your Typical Coelacanth The Renegade Roots of Hollywood Studios History of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Migrants Brought Farming to Europe, Ancient DNA Suggests The Guillotine’s First Cut 6 Things You May Not Know About the Spanish-American War 50th Anniversary of the 1962 World’s Fair: Slideshow 8 Surprising Fenway Park Events Eating Meat Allowed Humans to Conquer Globe, Scientists Say The Midnight Ride of William Dawes Marco Polo Went to China After All, Study Suggests The Angels of Bataan and Corregidor: 70 Years Later Titanic on Trial Last Meal on Titanic Titanic Today: A Transatlantic Tour Titanic Mania, 1912 Style Titanic’s Tennis Star Survivors 5 Things You May Not Know About Titanic’s Rescue Ship Six Degrees of Titanic Titanic Week on HISTORY 4 Things You May Not Know About the Battle of Shiloh Baseball’s First Fountain of Youth T. Rex Cousin Was Largest Known Feathered Animal New York’s Tallest, From Trinity Church to the Freedom Tower: Slideshow Human Ancestors Tamed Fire Earlier Than Thought 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Penny Van Gogh Painted Mutant Sunflowers Are Greece’s Ancient Treasures Under Threat? Where Does the Moon Come From? Georgian-Era British Sailors Lived on Ample Meat and Beer, Study Shows Sunken Cities The Drama Behind 100 Years of Washington’s Cherry Blossoms Vikings Had Mice, Did Travel St. Patrick’s Day Myths Debunked Julius Caesar’s Final Moments: Video Did a New Human Species Thrive in Stone Age China? A Perfect Solar Superstorm: The 1859 Carrington Event Egypt Dig Reveals Animal Mummies and Possible Hatshepsut Statue Romantic-in-Chief: Presidential Love Letters, From Adams to Nixon 8 Things You May Not Know About Daylight Saving Time First Map of Entire Titanic Wreck Site Sheds New Light on Disaster Remembering the Battle of New Bern on Its 150th Anniversary Faces of Drowned Civil War Sailors From USS Monitor Reconstructed Iceman Frozen for Millennia Had Lyme Disease, Clogged Arteries & Sardinian Relatives Wilt Chamberlain’s Epic Evening 9 Things You May Not Know About Dr. Seuss All About Leap Day A Founding Father’s Favorite Food Giant Prehistoric Penguin Reconstructed Drought May Have Spelled End for Maya Ancient Chinese Forest Found Buried By Volcano Drawing By 10-Year-Old George Washington Found? Organ Transplants: A Brief History Five Presidents’ Rocky Roads to the White House 7 Things You May Not Know About John Glenn and Friendship 7 Major Milestones in U.S.-China Relations All the Presidents’ Birthdays Missing World War II Ace Located After 71 Years Empire State Building For Sale? 7 Heartwarming Romantic Gestures Mary Todd Lincoln Portrait Revealed as Hoax Prisoner Exchanges Across the Bridge of Spies, From Powers to Shcharansky Last World War I Veteran Dies at the Age of 110 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Charles Dickens Did Beer Spur the Rise of Agriculture and Politics? Queen Elizabeth Marks 60-Year Reign With Diamond Jubilee Super Bowl Owes Its Name to a Bouncy Ball Groundhog Day: History and Facts Mona Lisa’s Long-Lost Twin Turns Up in Spain Little Ice Age, Big Consequences Horse Domestication Happened Across Eurasia, Study Shows 45 Years Ago: Apollo 1 Mission Ends in Disaster Native Americans Hailed From Siberian Highlands, DNA Reveals Oldest Known Dinosaur Nesting Site Was Also a Nursery A Brief History of Penmanship on National Handwriting Day The Tuskegee Airmen: 5 Fascinating Facts Popcorn Was Popular in Ancient Peru, Discovery Suggests Jack the Ripper ‘Autobiography’ Hits Shelves Drink Some Whiskey, Call in the Morning: Doctors & Prohibition 700-Year-Old William Wallace Letter Finally Reaches Scotland 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Alexander Hamilton Does Primitive Claw Disqualify So-Called ‘Missing Link’ Candidate? Amazing Treasures From Titanic to Be Auctioned: Slideshow 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Joan of Arc Powerful Arms Saved Saber-Toothed Killers’ Fearsome Fangs, Study Shows First Woman to Circle the Globe Honored at Last This Year in History: 2011
Roster From Ben Franklin’s Fire Department Found 9 Tales of Broken Arrows: Thermonuclear Near Misses Throughout History Amelia Earhart’s Historic Landing, 80 Years Ago ‘Happy Birthday, Mr. President’ Turns 50 The Olympic Torch Relay’s Surprising Origins Arthritisaurus: Did Elderly Dinos Get Inflamed Joints? Prehistoric French Artistes Painted Earliest Wall Art Murder in Parliament, 200 Years Ago Oldest Known Mayan Calendar Debunks December 2012 Myth Perforated Skulls From Middle Ages Found in Spain 5 U.S. Presidents Who Taught School The Hindenburg Disaster: 9 Surprising Facts 7 Things You May Not Know About Cinco de Mayo Killer Fish Rebellatrix Not Your Typical Coelacanth The Renegade Roots of Hollywood Studios History of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Migrants Brought Farming to Europe, Ancient DNA Suggests The Guillotine’s First Cut 6 Things You May Not Know About the Spanish-American War 50th Anniversary of the 1962 World’s Fair: Slideshow 8 Surprising Fenway Park Events Eating Meat Allowed Humans to Conquer Globe, Scientists Say The Midnight Ride of William Dawes Marco Polo Went to China After All, Study Suggests The Angels of Bataan and Corregidor: 70 Years Later Titanic on Trial Last Meal on Titanic Titanic Today: A Transatlantic Tour Titanic Mania, 1912 Style Titanic’s Tennis Star Survivors 5 Things You May Not Know About Titanic’s Rescue Ship Six Degrees of Titanic Titanic Week on HISTORY 4 Things You May Not Know About the Battle of Shiloh Baseball’s First Fountain of Youth T. Rex Cousin Was Largest Known Feathered Animal New York’s Tallest, From Trinity Church to the Freedom Tower: Slideshow Human Ancestors Tamed Fire Earlier Than Thought 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Penny Van Gogh Painted Mutant Sunflowers Are Greece’s Ancient Treasures Under Threat? Where Does the Moon Come From? Georgian-Era British Sailors Lived on Ample Meat and Beer, Study Shows Sunken Cities The Drama Behind 100 Years of Washington’s Cherry Blossoms Vikings Had Mice, Did Travel St. Patrick’s Day Myths Debunked Julius Caesar’s Final Moments: Video Did a New Human Species Thrive in Stone Age China? A Perfect Solar Superstorm: The 1859 Carrington Event Egypt Dig Reveals Animal Mummies and Possible Hatshepsut Statue Romantic-in-Chief: Presidential Love Letters, From Adams to Nixon 8 Things You May Not Know About Daylight Saving Time First Map of Entire Titanic Wreck Site Sheds New Light on Disaster Remembering the Battle of New Bern on Its 150th Anniversary Faces of Drowned Civil War Sailors From USS Monitor Reconstructed Iceman Frozen for Millennia Had Lyme Disease, Clogged Arteries & Sardinian Relatives Wilt Chamberlain’s Epic Evening 9 Things You May Not Know About Dr. Seuss All About Leap Day A Founding Father’s Favorite Food Giant Prehistoric Penguin Reconstructed Drought May Have Spelled End for Maya Ancient Chinese Forest Found Buried By Volcano Drawing By 10-Year-Old George Washington Found? Organ Transplants: A Brief History Five Presidents’ Rocky Roads to the White House 7 Things You May Not Know About John Glenn and Friendship 7 Major Milestones in U.S.-China Relations All the Presidents’ Birthdays Missing World War II Ace Located After 71 Years Empire State Building For Sale? 7 Heartwarming Romantic Gestures Mary Todd Lincoln Portrait Revealed as Hoax Prisoner Exchanges Across the Bridge of Spies, From Powers to Shcharansky Last World War I Veteran Dies at the Age of 110 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Charles Dickens Did Beer Spur the Rise of Agriculture and Politics? Queen Elizabeth Marks 60-Year Reign With Diamond Jubilee Super Bowl Owes Its Name to a Bouncy Ball Groundhog Day: History and Facts Mona Lisa’s Long-Lost Twin Turns Up in Spain Little Ice Age, Big Consequences Horse Domestication Happened Across Eurasia, Study Shows 45 Years Ago: Apollo 1 Mission Ends in Disaster Native Americans Hailed From Siberian Highlands, DNA Reveals Oldest Known Dinosaur Nesting Site Was Also a Nursery A Brief History of Penmanship on National Handwriting Day The Tuskegee Airmen: 5 Fascinating Facts Popcorn Was Popular in Ancient Peru, Discovery Suggests Jack the Ripper ‘Autobiography’ Hits Shelves Drink Some Whiskey, Call in the Morning: Doctors & Prohibition 700-Year-Old William Wallace Letter Finally Reaches Scotland 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Alexander Hamilton Does Primitive Claw Disqualify So-Called ‘Missing Link’ Candidate? Amazing Treasures From Titanic to Be Auctioned: Slideshow 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Joan of Arc Powerful Arms Saved Saber-Toothed Killers’ Fearsome Fangs, Study Shows First Woman to Circle the Globe Honored at Last This Year in History: 2011
