In 1940, the U.S. asked Ford to build bomber parts. Charles Sorensen had a bold idea instead: make whole planes on an ...

Steven Udvar-Hazy was born in Budapest in 1946 during Soviet control of Hungary. His classroom walls showed Stalin and Lenin ...

The granite dome became a symbol of American money stability during the Great Depression. Famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright ...

A historic plaque now marks the site of Hay’s showroom, commemorating the night when professional football found its future.

The quarantine officially began when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin closed the lunar module hatch on July 20, 1969, after ...

Most steamboats in the 1800s died young – just four or five years before fires, explosions, or river snags claimed them. Not the City of Hawkinsville. Built in Georgia in 1886, this tough wooden ...

The first Fourth of July in the American West wasn’t much like ours today. On July 4, 1804, Lewis and Clark’s men fired their boat cannon at dawn while pushing up the Missouri River. The day was so ...

In 1941, two men dug into Arizona’s past and found a gold mine of history. Emil Haury, with his Harvard degree, teamed up with Julian Hayden, who learned archaeology in the field. They cut through 12 ...

In 1858, Mobile plantation owner Timothy Meaher bet $1,000 he could sneak slaves into America, 50 years after the trade was banned. He soon hired Captain William Foster, who sailed to West Africa and ...

When Ruth Reinhold first took to the skies in 1933, Sky Harbor was just a cow pasture with big dreams. She soon joined the ranks of Arizona’s first female pilots, built a career selling planes, and ...

USS Cabana wasn’t the biggest ship in the Pacific, but she packed a punch. Built in Boston and launched in 1943, this destroyer escort quickly joined the war effort against Japan. From Pearl Harbor, ...