Early Puritans observed Thanksgiving days of prayer, but Sarah Josepha Hale's crusade is what ultimately gave us the Thanksgiving holiday.

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Years after the assassination of the 35th U.S. president, why can't Americans agree on what exactly happened on November 22, 1963?

Discover 10 of the biggest comebacks in military history, from the Battle of Saratoga to the English defeating the Spanish Armada.

This is the real story of the iconic Native American princess, whose vision of peaceful cooperation with European settlers was far ahead of its time.

Thomas Edison, America’s greatest inventor, was also deaf—a trait that sharpened his focus and fueled his groundbreaking innovations.

Get the story of how a fledgling, largely disconnected nation won its freedom from the greatest military force of its time.

This powerful special sheds light on four women, nearly lost to history, who were also behind the 1978 Jonestown Massacre in Guyana.

At just 6, Ruby Bridges braved angry crowds to attend an all-white school—becoming the first Black student to integrate in Louisiana.