(CNN) — Here is a look at women in business, education, government and sports who have broken through the glass ceiling and become the first in their respective positions in the United States. 1739 - ...

The first telecast of an American hockey game is transmitted over station W2XBS in New York. The viewing audience watches the New York Rangers battle the Montreal Canadiens at ...

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A group of young singer-songwriters have transformed the genre by looking backward, without getting stuck in the past.

Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every ...

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The Red Tails’ most significant mission was the escort of B-17 bombers on a bombing run over Berlin in March 1945. They flew ...

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Born two months prematurely in Albany, Western Australia in 1940, Ron Williams was originally given the ... full-blood, half-caste, black American, Wongi and Noongar. Ron did not care for school and ...

House dresses, full makeup, stockings, and perfectly styled hair—even for a day spent scrubbing floors and doing laundry.

The “Pachinko” author recommends four novels that present character studies of bold women making their way in changing times.

Women’s suffragist, investigative journalist and civil rights leader Ida B. Wells is now immortalized as part of the U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program.