These 10 aviation tales prove that sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.
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The Dentist Who Fought Off a Frenzied Banzai Charge
It was a fight of unspeakable horror—one Captain Ben L. Salomon seemed to have trained for his whole life. Almost 60 years later, his actions were recognized with a Medal of Honor.
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Book Review: Citizen Reporters / S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America
Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine that Rewrote America, by Stephanie Gorton
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Goths vs. Romans: Lessons from the Battle of Adrianople
Find out what drove Eastern Roman Emperor Flavius Valens to defeat and how the Goth became the “arbiter of war,” heralding the rise of medieval knights.
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Where was ‘Little Phil’?
Few things vex historians more than conflicting testimony from witnesses to the same event
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Owns a Bunch of Dinosaurs — The More You Know!
The Corps of Engineers now manages over 8,000,000 acres of land in the U.S. It also owns, rather unintentionally, an enormous collection of fossils and one of the most intact Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons to ever be found
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Disaster on Tenerife: History’s Worst Airline Accident
A series of tragic coincidences and human errors led to the collision of two 747s on a runway in the Canary Islands.
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Tank Driver Braved Flames, Bullets to Save Friends in Vietnam
Dwight Hal Johnson’s decision to risk his life for his friends in Vietnam earned him the Medal of Honor and left him struggling with PTSD.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The First Woman in American History to Lie in State
Breaking barriers even in death, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the steps of the […]
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An Explosive Plan to Use Atoms for Peace
Project Plowshare imagined using nuclear weapons as infrastructure-building tools.