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Learning about history is an antidote to the hubris of the present, the idea that everything in our lives is the ultimate.

New research shows that Lee's momentous decision to fight for the South was far from inevitable.

A Lee descendant finds two long-lost trunks full of family memorabilia in a Virginia bank vault.

If the colony had collapsed, England might not have been established as the major colonial power in North America.

The archaeologist who discovered the real Jamestown debunks myths, and answers age-old mysteries about North America's first successful English colony.

For the first time in U.S. history, women are fighting alongside their male their male counterparts. So far, 110 have died in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In one day, the stock market plummeted 22 percent shortly after the author became Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

The late David Halberstam was a journalist, heart and soul, with a distinctive way of writing history.

Twenty-five years after Grace Kelly’s tragic death, Howell Conant’s photographs of her still resonate with the “natural glamour” that changed Hollywood.