Held on this day in 1895, the 54-mile round trip took more than ten hours and involved accidents with streetcars, horses and ...

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

Pre-Maya hunter-gatherers built the system in Central America in response to a drought between 2200 and 1900 B.C.E., ...

Geoscientists in Australia suggest a strong tornado swept across the Nullarbor Plain in November 2022 and made the ...

The idea suggests prehistoric people built a ring of stone circles in modern-day Dartmoor National Park around the same time ...

With tears in her eyes on the morning of November 27, 1978, Dianne Feinstein stepped in front of a gathering of San Francisco ...

During a 1982 experiment, researchers recorded the unusual sound, termed “bio-duck.” Now, a researcher suggests they may have ...

Trillions of insects move around the globe each year. Scientists are working on new ways to map those long-distance journeys ...

The museum has been staging exhibitions featuring employee art since 1935. This year's show is only the second in history ...

The cables have been resting on the lakebed for decades, raising fears from environmentalists and residents about possible ...

Located in an English churchyard, the stone was inscribed with the name "Ebenezer Scrooge" for the 1984 movie. Police are ...

Travel to the American South, Vietnam and beyond with this year’s best cookbooks, memoirs and historic deep dives ...