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HISTORY Honors 250
Ratha Tep, based in Dublin, is a frequent contributor to The New York Times. She also writes books for children.
From a Viking 'far traveler' to a Soviet cosmonaut, these fearless women blazed daring new trails.
Yacht rock, while defined more than two decades later, offered a break from the politically charged era of the 1960s and early '70s.
Wong Tsu’s 10 months at Boeing in 1916-17 led to the fledgling airplane manufacturer's first military plane, first airmail plane and eventually, its first passenger plane.
A diverse coalition of mostly student activists converged in Mississippi in 1964 to challenge efforts to suppress the African American vote.
Caral was an architectural marvel—a 1,500-acre complex constructed by the oldest known civilization in the Western Hemisphere.
The Tyrannosaurus rex fossil known as Sue carries a controversial past—and has revealed fearsome facts about its species.
For five months in 1969, water flowing to the New York side of Niagara Falls was diverted, leaving a 100-foot-high dry cliff.
Operation Pied Piper organized the evacuation of some 800,000 children from urban centers in anticipation of Nazi bombings.
Annie Moore was a teenager from Ireland; Arne Petterssen was a Norwegian seaman who had overstayed his shore leave in New York.