Dynamic Directory - April 27, 2026

Ellis Island, located in New York Harbor, served as a port of entry - between 1892-1954 - for millions of European immigrants hoping for a new life in America.

Liberty is dedicated July 4, 1886. She is a gift from the people of France to the people of America.

This is the Deringer John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.

On April 3, 1968 - while in Memphis supporting sanitation workers - MLK gave a moving speech. It was his last.

Ted Kennedy gave the eulogy for his brother, Bobby, at the St.

The Volga River is one of the longest in the world. Here are some key facts about it, and its topography.

John Cabot - the Anglicized version of Giovanni Caboto's name - is believed to be the first European explorer to visit parts of North America since the Vikings reached what they termed "Vinland" (in the 11th century).

Ansel Adams, one of America's greatest photographers, started his professional life as a pianist. What made him decide to switch profressions?

Learn the story behind one of the most-famous photos of the U-boat War: The attack of U-569.

As Alan Turing and his Bletchly Park colleagues worked feverishly to break the Enigma code, they caught a break when the Royal Navy captured U-110 on May 9, 1941. Onboard was a working Enigma machine and secret codes for the following month. Initially towing the disabled U-boat to Iceland, the crew with the secret treasure was redirected to Scotland.

On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests an electrical telegraph. So why did it take years longer to send the first message?

Before the Pearl Harbor bombing, Japanese-Americans lived and worked on Terminal Island. After the bombing, their homes were destroyed and their way of life was gone forever.

Oliver Wendell Holmes is known for some of his free-speech decisions which he wrote while serving as a Supreme Court Justice.

Professor Wiles has won the Abel Prize for solving Fermat's Last Theorem. How long did it take to solve it? How did he do it?

Before he became a pope, Giuseppe Sarto had a great deal of experience living among his parishoners. As Pope Pius X, he strongly opposed the outbreak of WWI.

Major Henry Reed Rathbone and his fiancé, Clara Harris, attended a play with Abraham and Mary Lincoln on the night the President was shot. Booth lunged at Rathbone with a knife, injuring but not killing him. Learn how the assassination claimed more victims, years later, when Rathbone himself lost his mind.

On August 16, 1896 prospectors find gold in Alaska. The Trump fortune got its start as a result.