Jimmy Carter was alive for 40% of US history
Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to live to be 100 years old — a feat made even more incredible by the fact that he ...
From Carter's funeral, an American snapshot: A singular image, 5 presidents, 379 years of history
Add up their years: 379 to be exact, enough time to take you back into the mid-1600s, when the notion of the American nation ...
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A History of America Through the Lens of Disease and Death
Building the Worlds That Kill Us shows how social, political, and economic order in the U.S. has always favored some, at the ...
The history of American expansion: When the US tried to annex Canada
As President-elect Donald Trump talks of Canada joining the US, history shows that in its early days, America was ...
What fueled the LA wildfires now tearing through some of America's most expensive homes
California is no stranger to wildfires, but the firestorms raging through Los Angeles are different.
America’s 250th birthday prompts rethinking of historical markers
This story originally appeared on Stateline. Most Revolutionary War history buffs know the story of Francis Marion, the ...