The ancient Pyramid of the Moon, the second-largest pyramid in Teotihuacan, Mexico.

UNSPECIFIED - MARCH 08: Lucie Aubrac (1912-2007) member of the french resistance here during ww2 (Photo by Apic/Getty Images)

A punchbowl depicting a ship and the words "Success to the Tryphena." (Credit: Sarah Jane Ruch/Museum of the American Revolution)

The sun as seen on May 23, 1967. A powerful flare erupted from the bright area in the top-center of the solar disk.

The woman's bones in the burial site, surrounded by tortoise shells and additional objects. (Credit: Naftali Hilger)

Japan’s Emperor Akihito giving a televised address to the nation. (Credit: Imperial household / EPA)

A pair of donkeys in the Noah's Ark mosaic. (Credit: Jim Haberman/Baylor University)

Paleontologist Sebastian Apesteguia measures a footprint measuring over a meter made some 80 million years ago in Bolivia. (Credit: REUTERS / David Mercado)

America 101: Can the president and vice president be from the same state? President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney

Sarah Pruitt is a writer and editor based in seacoast New Hampshire. She has been a frequent contributor to History.com since 2005, and is the author of Breaking History: Vanished! (Lyons Press, 2017), which chronicles some of history's most famous disappearances.

Sarah Pruitt

Sarah Pruitt is a writer and editor based in seacoast New Hampshire. She has been a frequent contributor to History.com since 2005, and is the author of Breaking History: Vanished! (Lyons Press, 2017), which chronicles some of history&#8217;s most famous disappearances.

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Sarah Pruitt is a writer and editor based in seacoast New Hampshire. She has been a frequent contributor to History.com since 2005, and is the author of Breaking History: Vanished! (Lyons Press, 2017), which chronicles some of history's most famous disappearances.

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America’s Founding Fathers decided that one elected civilian—the U.S. president—would lead the executive branch of the federal government, a governmental structure that has remained in place for more than 200 years.

U.S. Presidents

Religion and spiritual issues, including Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, the Bible, Wicca, Buddhism and more, are at the core of human values and history.

Religion

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Legacy Unpublished

Prehistory, the vast period of time before written records or human documentation, includes the Neolithic Revolution, Neanderthals and Denisovans, Stonehenge, the Ice Age and more.

Pre-History

World War II was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. Sparked by the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the war dragged on for six bloody years until the Allies defeated the Axis powers of Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy in 1945. Explore the battles, leaders and atrocities from the war and its impact on geopolitics and humankind.

World War II

Martha Washington set many standards for American First Ladies, but from Abigail Adams and Eleanor Roosevelt to Hillary Clinton and Melania Trump, each has left her mark on the office.

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The History Teacher Who Outwitted the Gestapo

Scholar Claims Worship of Water Explains Mexico’s Ancient City

New Study Suggests Solar Storm in 1967 Nearly Caused Nuclear War

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Largest‑Ever Carnivorous Dinosaur Footprint Discovered in Bolivia

Rare Noah’s Ark Mosaic Discovered at Ancient Israeli Synagogue

Can the President and Vice President Be From the Same State?

Mary Todd Lincoln May Have Had Pernicious Anemia

Researchers Reconstruct Prehistoric Funeral of Female Shaman

Historic Toilets Tell the Tale of Philadelphia’s Revolutionary History

Ancient Chinese Shrine May Contain Buddha’s Skull Bone

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