The Mayflower Hotel opens its doors on February 18. The hotel, located at 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., ...

In January 1925, it wasn’t the cold that sent shivers down the spine of Curtis Welch, the only doctor in Nome, Alaska (population 1,400). It was the realization children were dying from an outbreak of ...

The longest and most arduous leg was anchored by a lesser-known dog named Togo, whose team pulled over 260 miles through blinding snow and wind chills to 85 below zero! At one crucial interval, Togo ...

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere and under siege from a contagious disease known as the ...