The space race goes into high gear when the Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the first man-made object to orbit the Earth, on October 4, 1957. The 184-pound satellite does little more than beep ...

Fourteen years in the making, sculptor Gutzon Borglum’s Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota is finished on October 31, 1941. “This is no mere ‘colossal’ stunt,” Borglum ...