These six American fires led to change: political, legislative and geographic. Those tragedies helped shape the evolving ...

Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) and Nat Turner (1800-1831) are towering figures in American history. Two stellar books published ...

Committee on Public Information poster from 1917 promoting the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. W. D. Stevens/Library of Congress. In 1917, on the brink of the U.S. entry ...

And right now, that includes an original 1933 fire engine by American La France. Let’s burn through a little history. Of course, the need to fight fires is nothing new. In ancient Rome ...

By this I don’t just mean a great fantasy novel written by an American. From the originating ... Martin draws on the history of medieval England and France to create his Westeros.