american history

It's official. The crash dummies are joining the slippers from the Wizard of Oz in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History's collection. The Department of Transportation and the Smithsonian announced the donation today saying that the dummies, Vince and Larry, who started "life" as...

Over a quarter of Americans don't know what country the U.S. declared independence from, according to a new Marist poll. And 40% of 18- to 29-year-olds couldn't produce the correct response. Find out if you know some key details surrounding July 4.

Everyone knows George Washington was a military titan and our first president. What's less remembered is that he was also a successful businessman. From his Mount Vernon estate, he ran a diverse suite of enterprises that included fishing, farming, and whiskey production. In fact, George Washington...

How to explain what Rick and Megan Prelinger are up to? The California couple searches out all that stuff you probably saw and read in your childhood -- films about corn production, home movies of Detroit, propaganda manuals about good manners -- and collects it. When a library has to get rid of a...