What one man did with seventy-five days in 1843, and what you could do with the hundred left in your year.

A failed painter steamed up the Hudson while the crowd waited for him to sink. He didn't invent the steamboat. He made it work.

Elon Musk hits about a fifth of his own deadlines, but that number tells you less than you think. The meaning sits in the target.

Exhausted and under fire at Monocacy, Corporal Alexander Scott picked up his regiment's fallen national flag and carried both colors off the field.