Today veteran’s hospitals and retirement homes are common place, but in the years after the Civil War, grassroots efforts began to establish and fund the…

His first invention involved a kite–and perhaps his most famous discovery involved one too…

Every year the National FFA selects one student as the Star Farmer of America. It’s quite an honor. Today we visit with the oldest living…

Wayne Booth resides in Cordell, Oklahoma thanks to a snowstorm over a century ago. The story of that storm and the farm that made him…

It was the most famous of escape attempts at Alcatraz. The fact that no one ever saw the inmates alive-or dead-keeps the story alive, as…

During Troy Wade’s four decades at the Nevada Test Site, he went from designing weapons to stop the Russians to actually sitting down with his…

Deep under the earth just northwest of Las Vegas, Troy Wade worked to win the cold war…

Here’s the story of a woman who built her own museum–by accident at the beginning, but one that people from around the world come to…

Little remains of the town of Florida, Missouri–or depending on how you view history–a lot remains of Florida, Missouri. While the town is gone, it…

It may have seemed this famous western showman had married the wrong woman. After all, his bride was a city girl who didn’t grow up…