Find out how Coney Island got Its name and read more about the rise and fall of its theme parks and other attractions.

During the fall and winter of 1842, Emmett collaborated with fellow circus performer Frank Brower, a comedian, singer, dancer ...

When the dam was officially dedicated on September 30, 1935, the colossal project on the Southern Nevada portion of the ...

In 1968, Eugene McCarthy revealed major divisions among Democrats, changing the political landscape in a way few American ...

From the battlefields of Vietnam, to the decision making in Washington, to the protests on college campuses, explore ...

Best known by his stage name “Ranger Doug,” Douglas B. Green is an award-winning songwriter, musician, singer, writer, ...

Frontline investigates the Reagan administration's effort to remove tens of thousands of people from the Social Security ...

Explore a timeline of the Pacific theater, from the invasion of Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific to the ...

Previous Missouri governors had tried to capture the James brothers, employing everything from reward offers to a squad of ...

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the daughter of Boston politician John Fitzgerald and wife of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr., was the ...

Browse this gallery of Kennedy family photographs taken at the Hyannis Port compound, the setting for Kennedy family ...

March 13, 1939 The Kennedy family attends the coronation of Pope Pius XII. Jack travels through Germany, Poland and Russia on ...