Lakshmi Gandhi

These sleek predators were once part of hunting traditions across the ancient world.

The Games marked two firsts: live television coverage and the debut of Russian athletes at the Winter Olympics.

Who owns your image? Even in 1902, privacy laws had to grapple with new technology.

Her televised tour brought the White House into American living rooms.

Classic Westerns have cemented the image of cowboys as white Americans, but the first wave of horse-riding cow wranglers in North America were Indigenous Mesoamerican men.

They had a profound effect on the massive world of American food production.

Chinese immigrant workers and Indigenous tribes paid a particularly high price.

They worked as pilots, translators, guerrilla fighters and more.

Armed with swords, bows and arrows, axes and spears, the Trung sisters and their army  stormed 65 Chinese-run citadels. They became national heroines.

Obtaining the vote was just one item on a long civil rights agenda.

From David Letterman's emotional monologue to George W. Bush's World Series first pitch, these collective experiences helped the nation process its shock and grief.

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Magie designed her original board game as a critique, not a tribute, to capitalism.