On a Tuesday afternoon in 1950, April 25, in a board room jammed with owners and coaches of the fledgling league’s 12 (soon to be 11) teams, the Boston Celtics’ Walter Brown called out a name in the ...

In 1826 or 1827, French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce made history when he took the world's first photograph from the window of his estate in Burgundy. Niépce had been trying to capture images of ...

THIS BLACK HISTORY MONTH, DETROIT LIONS DEFENSIVE END AL - QUADIN MUHAMMAD AND DETROIT LIONS SAFETY KERBY JOSEPH SHARE HOW MCKINLEY THOMPSON JR BECAME THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN DESIGNER TO WORK ...

Other keywords officials were instructed to search for included “firsts” in history, including content about the first female ranger and first Black commanding general, as well as the words ...

In 1928, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. chose the Wren Building as the first to be returned to its 18th-century appearance as part of the iconic Colonial Williamsburg restoration. Learn more about our ...

During the ceremony, Navy officials detailed the close relationship between the medical pioneers and Higbee's individual contributions to the service. "Whether you are the first group of 20 female ...