History Makers

Viewed through the prism of history, those living in North America in the 1770s lived through a time of great change. …

Throughout the late 1930s and early 1940s, there were few hospitals in Japan quite like Hiroshima’s Shima Hospital. First opened …

They’d be hard to track down, but somewhere out in the United States right now are thousands of vinyl records …

Snaking up and down nearly 23 miles of Boston’s Charles River is a paved bike path well-known to the city’s …

In the modern media era, it is virtually impossible to imagine how much surgery on a sitting President would dominate …

On September 11, 1942, one hundred and twenty feet below the surface of the South China Sea, one of the …

While still scarcer than men, a female surgeon is now a common sight in the American military’s operating theaters. A …

On May 25 1973, a Saturn IB rocket roared into the sky above Florida’s legendary Cape Canaveral. Alongside two other …

In 1956, a 20-year-old pre-med student from Boston made American figure skating history in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. Tenley Albright won …