From November 20, 1846 to March 1, 1847, Irish immigrant Patrick Breen, a Donner party member, kept a diary of his ordeal in the mountains. Clinging to survival with his wife Margaret and their seven ...

In May of 1917, U.S. medical teams became the first American troops to arrive in the European war zone. Helen Dore Boylston served in France with the first Harvard Unit, a U.S. medical team that ...