Beach assault, Saipan, June 1944. USGov PD. June 15, 1944 U.S. Marines and Army troops, supported by a massive fleet, invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 Japan's ...

In the aftermath of the 1977 blackout in New York City, two Harlem residents stand near the sprinkler of an open fire hydrant on 3rd Avenue and 117th Street, July 15, 1977. Gerard S. Williams/Newsday ...

James and Lucretia Garfield had seven children, five of whom survived into adulthood to make a lasting impact on their country. The passing of the Garfield's first and last children at ages three and ...

Mary Pickford reached unprecedented heights of fame -- and fell from stardom into semi-obscurity. Many remember her career and her films, but few know of the years that followed. Pickford's life is a ...

Walt Disney was an international celebrity by the time he was 30 and hailed a genius before he was 40, with honorary degrees from Harvard and Yale. He was also a son, a brother, a father, and a ...

When Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence in the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed a commission to find the cause for the unrest. Their findings offered an unvarnished ...

Sandwiched between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Civil War in 1861, the California Gold Rush is considered by many historians to be the most significant event of the first half of the ...

"The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never again escape from it," wrote Joseph Goebbels in ...

On March 16, 1968 the angry and frustrated men of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division entered the Vietnamese village of My Lai. "This is what you've been waiting for -- search and destroy ...

In 1927 and 1928 the future looked uncertain for Las Vegas. The railroad, a major employer in the city, had significantly downsized and laid off hundreds of workers. With few jobs and 120-degree heat, ...

The white folks had all the courts, all the guns, all the hounds, all the railroads, all the telegraph wires, all the newspapers, all the money and nearly all the land – and we had only our ignorance, ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/cancer-detectives-brief-history-speculum/ 1847 specula. Source image: National Library of Medicine. Many ...