The tangy tale of how America’s children learned to squeeze life for all it’s worth
The world's smallest bear plays a crucial role in repairing its tropical habitat in Southeast Asia
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Between the 1920s and 1940s, wealthy young women signed up to run errands and carry messages for the Frontier Nursing Service, whose nurse-midwives provided care to patients in hard-to-reach areas
A lifelong passion for the national pastime led John Thorn to redefine the sport's relationship with statistics and reveal the truth behind its earliest days
A self-described "little man in a hurry," Joseph Hirshhorn built a premier modern art collection
And one species can even weigh as much as a house cat
The collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge is shocking—but not unprecedented
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The Mediterranean capital city savors its connections to antiquity—while reappraising its past
George Hurrell’s photographs of actors from the 1930s and 1940s dazzle in a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
As the Southwest dries, can a city notorious for excess find a way to survive with less?
Before the toromiro disappeared from the island, at least two men grabbed seeds from the last remaining plant and brought them home
How do filmmakers get period clothing to look the part? Inside the textile workshop where the past comes to life
Based in Greenwich Village, Heterodoxy had just one requirement for membership: An applicant must "not be orthodox in her opinion"
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Observed around the world, the Hindu Festival of Colors welcomes spring
A new film dramatizes Shirley Chisholm's history-making bid to become the first Black woman president in 1972
Archaeological discoveries add 500 years to the history of Corinth's main harbor
Mabel Boll, a wealthy New York socialite, dreamed of making aviation history. But Earhart beat her to the finish line, completing the trans-Atlantic journey as a passenger in June 1928
Meet James Swanson, the lifelong Abraham Lincoln obsessive who wrote the nonfiction thriller that inspired the acclaimed miniseries
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Many of these selective clubs peaked in popularity in the 18th and 19th centuries
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