On June 20, 1981, Theresa Claiborne was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force’s first Black female pilot, Claiborne would become the first Black woman to command and ...
Smithsonian educators, teaming up with USA TODAY, recently developed a special guide called, America’s Veterans: Honor, Service, and Sacrifice.This guide is all about honoring and recognizing ...
The 1898 Wilmington massacre left dozens of Black North Carolinians dead. Conspirators also forced the city's multiracial ...
Launching from the deck of the USS Eisenhower, these women showed that being a good aviator has nothing to do with gender Mike Hankins Three of the first American women to fly combat ...
On its 66th flyby of the king of planets, Juno has captured spectacular views of the stormy atmosphere, processed by citizen ...
For historians of slavery, the origins of the modern world and the origins of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are one and the ...
It's not clear how the juvenile male ended up so far north, but experts suggest he was motivated by his appetite ...
Once one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings, Berlin's symbol of death and division has been turned into a ...
The viral king penguin chick at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is beginning to lose his youthful down, a process that will give ...
When Hurricane Helene hit Valle Crucis in North Carolina, the creek across the Watauga River was already overflowing from 11 ...
It's not the first time savvy entrepreneurs have marketed canned air to tourists. Similar products have been sold at vacation ...
When the war ended, Allied soldiers tracked down Nicolas de Largillierre's "Portrait de femme à mi-corps" with the help of a ...