Your Birthday in History: July 24th

Uncover the reasons behind centuries of line warfare, how battlefield tactics evolved and what brought the era of fighting in lines to an end.

What do you do with superglue that instantly sticks to everything?

In the 1960s, Civil Rights Leaders brought the celebration of Juneteenth back into American life.

In Operation Torch, the first joint U.S.-British offensive of the war, thousands of inexperienced U.S. troops—and their untested leader, Eisenhower—face off against the hardened German Afrika Korps and the infamous Field Marshall Erwin Rommel.