Great books and films rivet our attention. Then we learn there is even more behind them than the final work. Let's go behind them and find out more.
Learn about barn spiders, orb webs and life on a farm in this story behind E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web."
Originally owned by Franklin & Armfield, dealers in slaves, this slave pen was located not far from the U.S. Capitol.
In this fictional setting, at Jurassic World, scientists working in the "Hammond Creation Lab" follow a detailed process to produce new dinosaur attra...
Henry Bliss Northup was the man who rescued Solomon Northup - whose slave name was ''Platt Hamilton'' - from slavery.
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Solomon Northup, a free black, is listed as a slave called "Plat Hamilton" on this manifest for the brig Orleans.
It was in this cabin - owned by James and William Gillis and located in Tuolumne County, California - where Samuel Clemens, writing as Mark Twain, cre...
After close relationships with two different kings - Francis I (of France) and Henry VIII (of England) - Mary Boleyn marries twice. Some historians be...
In the 12th century, the King of England was vexed by Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Because the clouds have cleared on Sunday morning - December 7, 1941 - every pilot has an unobstructed view as hundreds of Japanese airplanes approach...
One of the wonders of the ancient world, the lighthouse at Alexandria, Egypt was located on the island of Pharos.
Red Tails, a story about African-Americans who flew for their country during WWII, is a story about racial prejudice and how a group of brave men achi...
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