Adrienne Calhoun’s story lives in the shadow of George Foreman’s legacy. Discover what history remembers about her and the ...

Kathleen DuVal is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, Independence Lost: ...

Liliane Simon is from Luxembourg, where she trained as a stenotypist. She joined the European civil service at a very young age. She started at the High Authority of the ECSC in 1957 and then worked ...

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Eva Palmer Sikelianos was a prominent figure in the movement toward reviving ancient Greek artistic and cultural practices.

Ever wondered who holds the title of the tallest man in history? Discover Robert Wadlow’s extraordinary life, unmatched height, and remarkable journey.

History sometimes hides its greatest heroes in plain sight. Among those whose brilliance illuminated distant horizons—yet ...

Time seems to be going faster than ever, but it’s still important to remember and learn from the past, writes Lynne Agress.

In the centuries-old history of Russia, there are not many personalities whose legacy and military victories had such a ...

Sorkin rejects the idea, still bandied about in high school classes today, that Hoover caused the Great Depression. He argues ...

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