HISTORY

In 1971, one of the country's most famous health advocates visited talk show host Dick Cavett. He didn't make it past the second commercial break.

His last meal was a dry-cured meat similar to speck or bacon, according to new analysis of his stomach contents.

By the time John Clem was discharged near the end of the war, he had not only seen active combat but had become a national folk hero as well.

Sergeant No. 97 was detailed to the Board of Education, where she enforced child labor, truancy, and compulsory education laws.

Just behind Lincoln's hairline sits a massive chamber. What's inside may never be seen by human eyes again.

The March 5, 1877 inauguration of Hayes was merely for show. Though the public didn't know it, he was already their president.

In 1854, wealthy heir Roger Tichborne was presumed dead in shipwreck. In 1865, he reappeared—but was it really him? More than 100 years later, we still don't know.

The online collection is called the CIA Records Search Tool, or CREST.

The long-overdue restoration will be completed with a donation from an Italian telecommunications company.

E.T., the CD player, Diet Coke, "Cheers," the list goes on!

Eddie Bauer might not have come up with the idea if not for a scary near-death experience.

The recorder doesn’t have a reputation for being the coolest instrument in the world, but everyone from William Shakespeare to Paul McCartney has turned to it for inspiration.