President Harrison Dies: How William Henry Harrison’s 31-Day Presidency Became the Shortest — and Most Consequential — in American History

At 12:30 in the morning on April 4, 1841, William Henry Harrison — the ninth President of the United States, war hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe, conqueror of the great Shawnee

The US Flag Design Adopted: How Congress Resolved on June 14, 1777 to Create the Stars and Stripes That Would Define a Nation

On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress of the United States met in Philadelphia and passed a resolution of just thirty-one words that would launch one of the most enduri

Francis Drake Knighted: How Queen Elizabeth I Honoured the World’s Most Audacious Sailor Aboard the Golden Hind at Deptford

On April 4, 1581, Queen Elizabeth I stepped aboard a weather-beaten 120-ton galleon moored at the royal dockyard at Deptford on the River Thames and did something that sent a polit

The First Mobile Phone Call: How Martin Cooper Changed the Way Humanity Communicates on April 3, 1973

On the morning of April 3, 1973, a man stood on the sidewalk of Sixth Avenue in midtown Manhattan, directly outside the New York Hilton Hotel, and held a device the size and weight

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