According to the photo's caption, pictured here are "A Rockwitz (312lbs), comedian Eddie Carvey (250lbs), David Burns (475lbs ...

History books can only cover so much, and most of us haven’t cracked one open since we were in college. But if you want to ...

A major Dutch museum is staging a huge exhibition of American photography that explores the tension between how the United ...

When officials denied that he was a citizen, Wong Kim Ark took his case to the Supreme Court and won. Today, that decision is ...

Black History Month celebrates the achievements of African Americans, but also the strangers who showed up as friends.

The Withers Collection in Memphis is a testament to the power of photography as both an art form and a historical archive.

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The military helicopter that collided with an American Airlines flight over Washington, DC, was flying nearly twice as high ...

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