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Civil rights crusader Fannie Lou Hamer rivaled Martin Luther King Jr. in her command of audiences.

Photographer Boris Yaro shot the haunting photograph of Bobby Kennedy lying fatally wounded in the arms of Juan Romero, a busboy.

In 1777, Captain John Paul Jones hatched a plan to take the American Revolution to Britain’s shores.

President Abraham Lincoln had two loving and supportive mothers in his lifetime. The second helped him cope with the tragic loss of the first.

Before an unnamed senior official in the Trump administration published the opinion piece, “I am part of the resistance inside the Trump administration" in the New York Times, another mysterious anonymous author lit up Washington.

Family and friends had known about the president’s intimate relationship with Mary Peck for years, but whispers about their involvement were growing.

Emmett Till’s mother opened his casket and sparked the civil rights movement.

More than 50,000 soldiers died during the Battle of Waterloo, but their teeth lived on.

Despite warnings of icebergs, the John Rutledge set sail from Liverpool, England, to New York.

In the fall of 1902, a year into his presidency, President Teddy Roosevelt set off to Mississippi for a bear-hunting vacation. It ended differently than planned.