Mummies are more than just bodies wrapped in bandages! Learn about some famous mummies and where they were buried. Find out why ancient Egyptians preserved their dead and why becoming a mummy was important to life after death.

Men may have fought the battles of the American Revolution, but women played an important part too. Some women fought the battle at home, speaking their minds about the British occupation or gathering supplies for their soldiers. Others fought openly for their cause, secretly joining the military or becoming spies. Get to know these heroic women and their importance to the colonists' victory during the Revolutionary War.

The United States was in the middle of the Civil War when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. What exactly did this document say? And how did change the country?