The Marshall Plan Signed: How President Truman and George Marshall Rebuilt Europe and Reshaped the World Order

On April 3, 1948, President Harry S. Truman sat down at his desk in the White House and signed into law the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948 — the legislation that would be known

Bruno Hauptmann Executed: The Crime of the Century, the Trial of the Century, and the Enduring Controversy of the Lindbergh Kidnapping

At 8:44 in the evening on April 3, 1936, two thousand volts of electricity surged through Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the execution chamber of the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton

Jesse James Killed: How Robert Ford Shot America’s Most Famous Outlaw on April 3, 1882

On the morning of April 3, 1882, in a rented house at 1318 Lafayette Street in St. Joseph, Missouri, Jesse Woodson James — the most wanted outlaw in America, the man whose name h

The Pony Express Begins: How the Most Daring Mail Service in American History Connected Missouri to California in Ten Days

On the evening of April 3, 1860, a cannon boomed in the streets of St. Joseph, Missouri, and a young rider — his identity still disputed by historians a century and a half later

Edward the Confessor Crowned King of England: The Reign, Legacy, and Succession Crisis of England’s Last Wessex King

On Easter Sunday, April 3, 1043, a man who had spent most of his life as an exile in Normandy was crowned King of England at Winchester Cathedral in a ceremony of deep religious an