Why America fell in love with joke-filled burlesque in the 19th century, long before it transformed into striptease
Jack Johnson, “the Galveston Giant,” became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion in 1908
In WWII, the 20-year-old George H. W. Bush was only one of group of nine airmen who escaped fate worse than death
The curious life of Ida Wood, a socialite turned miserly recluse who lived locked in a Manhattan hotel room for 30 years
The Altamont free concert in 1969 featured the Rolling Stones and was intended to be Woodstock West but ended in crime and chaos
Because Stanislav Petrov reported a computer malfunction in 1983, we know him today as “The man who saved the world”
The fun but morbid “Struwwelpeter” is a 19th-century German children’s book in which the children suffer bizarre punishments
Josephine Baker adopted 12 children, marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr., and became the first American woman buried in France with a 21-gun salute