President Abraham Lincoln influenced the nation even in death, when his embalming made the practice more accepted
“Win one for the Gipper”: The Hollywood career of Ronald Reagan offered clues to his presidential style
An English seaman became the first Western samurai by impressing a Japanese warlord with his knowledge, centuries later inspiring novel “Shogun”
The artist behind the iconic Uncle Sam wants YOU poster was more interested in pretty women than politics
A Soviet cosmonaut became the first casualty of the Space Race when his craft slammed into Earth, leaving nothing but charred remains
For a black boy in 1950s segregated rural South, receiving a kiss from a white girl meant arrest, beatings, and a life forever changed
A forensic anthropologist supports the theory that Amelia Earhart crash-landed on a remote island and died a castaway