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New ideas—and archaeological evidence—may provide answers to colonial North America’s longest-running mystery.

Fate brought Custer and Sitting Bull together one bloody June evening at the Little Bighorn—and marked the end of the Wild West.

Although it ran only briefly 150 years ago, the Pony Express still defines our understanding of the Old West.

The 70-year-old statesman lived the high life in Paris and pulled off a diplomatic miracle.

The pitcher with the unhittable fireball deserves as much credit for breaking baseball’s color barrier as does Jackie Robinson.