On June 20, 1981, Theresa Claiborne was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force’s first Black female pilot, Claiborne would become the first Black woman to command and ...
Smithsonian educators, teaming up with USA TODAY, recently developed a special guide called, America’s Veterans: Honor, Service, and Sacrifice.This guide is all about honoring and recognizing ...
The 1898 Wilmington massacre left dozens of Black North Carolinians dead. Conspirators also forced the city's multiracial ...
Launching from the deck of the USS Eisenhower, these women showed that being a good aviator has nothing to do with gender Mike Hankins Three of the first American women to fly combat ...
It's not clear how the juvenile male ended up so far north, but experts suggest he was motivated by his appetite ...
For historians of slavery, the origins of the modern world and the origins of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are one and the ...
When Hurricane Helene hit Valle Crucis in North Carolina, the creek across the Watauga River was already overflowing from 11 ...
The robbers only made away with two of the screen prints, which they swiped from a gallery in the Netherlands. They abandoned ...
On its 66th flyby of the king of planets, Juno has captured spectacular views of the stormy atmosphere, processed by citizen ...
The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...
Once one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings, Berlin's symbol of death and division has been turned into a ...