At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family line, and he takes readers along on the journey.

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Harold Ridley successfully implanted the world’s first artificial intraocular lens.

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What happened on February 7 in world history? Here are 4 events worth remembering: See them above in our 57-second video, and below for more details! Get On This Day In History delivered straight to ...

The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

Before radar, nations relied on sound to detect incoming aircraft. Devices such as acoustic horns were developed during the ...