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Evelyn Berezin, the computer scientist who brought word processors to offices across America in the 1970s, died Saturday in Manhattan. She was 93.

David Brion Davis, a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of an influential trilogy on slavery, has died at 92. Davis was awarded a National Humanities medal in 2014.

Recent floods in Michigan have unleashed a torrent of mud that hit the Midland Center for the Arts. Volunteers have spent all weekend packing wet historical documents into freezers.

The city has been monitored by the state of Michigan since December 2014, when city officials retook control after the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

There were debate watching parties across the country Monday night. Some viewers said they were watching history being made. David Greene has a sampling of some of those gatherings.

Parisians don't have to be millionaires to bid on a piece of history. The Drouot auction house offers those who aren't super rich a chance to snag a worthy canvas or piece of furniture.

The animals are washing ashore at a higher rate than the last 26 years. Host Scott Simon speaks with Charley Potter, collection manager for marine mammals at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, about the response along the Mid-Atlantic.

History books tell us that times were hard in the 1800s. But there was occasional humor. Some of it was even funny.

The Chicago Sky guard won the WNBA's 3-Point Contest for a record fourth time, stamping herself as one of the greatest shooters in history.

A federal jury returned a mixed verdict on Wednesday in the largest corruption case in the history of the Navy. Four of five former officers were convicted in the bribery trial.