Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais was Napoleon’s first wife and the first Empress of the French. During the Reign of Terror, Joséphine’s first husband had been g...
On July 11, 1804, former secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton met Vice President Aaron Burr at Weehawken, New Jersey for one fateful duel. The two promi...
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It's been a mystery that has confounded history enthusiasts for years.
What happened to Amelia Earhart?
This month, on t...
During World War II, Australian Nancy Grace Augusta Wake was a Special Operations Executive for the British and was one of the most decorated servicewomen for t...
American novelist Edith Wharton was the first female to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921. In 1927, 1928, and 1930, she was nomina...
Sometimes, people set out with an idea in their heads to invent something useful. Other times, they create something completely by accident that ends up changin...
Writer, philosopher, and women’s rights advocate, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote many novels and treatises along with a travel narrative, a history of the French Rev...
Roger Sherman was a lawyer and statesman during colonial America. He is the only person to have signed all four of the United States’ great state papers: the Co...
Today in the United States, Independence Day is celebrated on July 4th, and the day is commonly called the Fourth of July. In 1941, it was made a federal holida...
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ICELAND - archaeologists working at Eyjafjörður fjord in northern Iceland uncovered a massive burial site earlier this month. Now...
