The Last Grandson Of John Tyler, The U.S. President Who Took Office In 1841, Just Died At Age 96 ...

Sarah Goode was one of several Black women who received patents in the 1880s. The year after Goode submitted the patent ...

During recent excavations in Jerusalem’s ancient City of David area, an archaeologist pulled a gold ring out of the dirt. At first, researchers thought that the ring, found in excellent condition, ...

In the aftermath of the shock and outrage of the Watergate scandal, there was also a mystery. Who was “Deep Throat,” the secret source who leaked information to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward ...

In 2015, two members of an Israeli kibbutz near Haifa spotted some intriguing wreckage off the coast. The ship was rapidly retaken by sand until the University of Haifa managed to launch excavations ...

New research shows that swords forged in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 19th century were made by local craftspeople and not imported from Europe, as some experts had speculated.

During excavations ahead of the construction of a tunnel on the coast of Sweden, archaeologists came across half a dozen shipwrecks deep in the mud. Representing several centuries of shipbuilding ...

In 1968, Võ Thị Thắng was sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. She was only in her early 20s, but the prospect of losing her young adulthood to prison and torture didn’t seem to dishearten her in the ...

Twelve-year-old Mary Beatrice Kenner had an unusual hobby. She enjoyed wandering the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C., wondering if she might one day hold a patent for one of her ...

Drought struck British India after a failed monsoon season in 1876, leaving crops withering in the fields and sending food prices soaring. When the drought extended through the next summer, millions ...

The death of Johnny Cash, the legendary “Man in Black,” marked the end of an era for country music. He passed away on Sept. 12, 2003, at the age of 71 after battling complications from diabetes. The ...

It’s widely believed that the first human settlers of North America reached the continent through the Bering Land Bridge, an ice-free landscape that connected Asia and North America after the last Ice ...