Calvin Coolidge Vice President Calvin Coolidge went to bed at 9 p.m. on August […]
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Picture of the Day: March 11
The Dred Scott Case Dred Scott was a slave who accompanied his owner — […]
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Picture of the Day: August 2
On August 2, 1923, the handsome and congenial 29th president of the United States, […]
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Picture of the Day: March 10
Alexander Graham Bell’s Notes On a page from his notebook, dated March 10, 1876, […]
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Picture of the Day: March 8
The Monitor vs. the Merrimack Two armored ships face off for the first time […]
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Picture of the Day: March 9
Grant’s Commission On March 9, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln officially commissioned Ulysses S. Grant […]
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Picture of the Day: March 7
Osa and Martin Johnson In the 1930s, Kansas husband-and-wife team Osa and Martin Johnson […]
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Picture of the Day: August 1
Jesse Owens and the 1936 Berlin Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympic Games opened on […]
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Picture of the Day: July 30
The Death of Mark Antony Mark Antony, lover of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII […]
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Picture of the Day: Harriet Quimby
Drama critic Harriet Quimby (shown here in 1911) became the first licensed woman pilot […]