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In baseball's earliest years, players beaned baserunners and often had to flout town laws prohibiting the game

For all his previous successes, President Herbert Hoover proved incapable of arresting the economic free fall of the Depression— or soothing the fears of a distressed nation.

250 years ago, Major Robert Rogers and his rangers launched a daring wilderness raid against an enemy village, but paid a steep price.

A hurricane sank a fleet in Pensacola Bay 450 years ago, dooming the first major European attempt to colonize North America, a story that archaeologists are just now fleshing out.

After living through America’s worst defeat in World War II and the infamous death march, Army Private Ben Steele started drawing pictures of the experiences that haunted him.