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By organizing weekly gatherings of political leaders and citizens, she proved democracy works best when rivals see one another as human beings.

A Constitutional crisis erupted when President Lincoln authorized the Army to arrest suspicious persons without due process after Maryland rebels tried to cut off Washington.

New scrutiny questions the record of Woodrow Wilson, long thought to be one of our greatest presidents.

William Seward's 1868 attempt to acquire the Danish territory was the country's first, but not the last. 

While Robert Morris is remembered as the "financier of the Revolution," his partner and former boss, Thomas Willing, has been lost to history despite his own contributions to early American business and finance. 

Decades before the Ayatollah, even before the shah, early Americans found themselves enchanted with Iranian culture, politics, and history.

Order in Iran completely broke down in the days before the Shah fled and Khomeini returned triumphant.

The photograph of iron-workers having lunch in the air high above Manhattan is one of America's most iconic images.

A private pilot named Kenneth Arnold kicked off a worldwide craze when he claimed he saw a string of shiny saucers fly past Mount Rainier in 1947.

Efforts continue to preserve the historic home of General John Glover in Swampscott, Massachusetts, which is still slated for demolition.