More than a century ago, recycling wasn't a thing, but people did it instinctively.

Truman felt the middle class was left out when it came to health care coverage and fought to institute a federal health plan paid for through a payroll tax.

George H.W. Bush was among the cadets and Gerald Ford served as a coach in the intense war-time training camp that featured giant wheels, heavy sand bags and oversized balls.

Avian influenza has been sickening birds at least since the 1800s—and has been a factor in the emergence of human pandemics.

When a chemist discovered that carbon atoms could be used to date ancient remains, he devised a method that upended archaeology.