The underappreciated genius who laid the groundwork for the nation's modern economy — including the banking system, Wall Street, and an "opportunity society" in which talent and hard work, not birth, determined success.
The life and career of our 41st president, from his service in World War II to the Oval Office, and his role as the patriarch of a political family whose influence is unequaled in modern American life.
Although President Ronald Reagan did not actually use the phrase "evil empire" in this June 8, 1982 speech, he described the collapse of global communism as inevitable.
In 1969 off the California coast, a US Navy crane carefully lowered a massive tubular structure into the waters. It was an audacious feat of engineering — a pressurized underwater habitat, designed for an elite group of divers to spend days or even months at a stretch living and working on the ocean floor.Sealab tells the little-known story of the daring program that tested the limits of human endurance and revolutionized undersea exploration.
Although he did not have much formal schooling, Whitman was alive to the world around him, wandering through the natural bounty of Long Island and through the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan.
It was the man in the middle, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (also known as "Junior") who radically changed the very identity of the family and the impact of its legacy
When the banking firm of Jay Cooke and Company, a firm heavily invested in railroad construction, closed its doors on September 18, 1873, a major economic panic swept the nation.
