While he didn’t roam the Midwest with a pot on his head, John Chapman made history as a shrewd frontiersman with an eye for helping settlers.

One document played a principal part in forming a nation and changing the world—the Declaration of Independence.

In ‘This Week in History,’ 11 Boston thieves pull off ‘the crime of the century,’ leaving the FBI to rely on the thieves to bring themselves down.

Thanks to photography and the budding medium of film, two brothers transformed the Grand Canyon from a forgotten wasteland into a tourist destination.