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

LiveScience reports that a team of researchers analyzed ancient remains found at the Cooper’s Ferry archaeological site ...

Throughout the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the early years of the Gilded Age, Thomas Nast used his political cartoons published in Harper's Weekly to satirize current events, expose corruption, and ...

Thousands of years ago, ancient Egyptians began worshipping Hathor, a powerful goddess associated with love, fertility, and motherhood. Often depicted with a cow’s head or as a woman adorned with cow ...

These photos of Elvis Presley capture the tumultuous arc of his life and career, from "Heartbreak Hotel" and his marriage to Priscilla, to his drug use and early demise in 1977 at the age of just 42.

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 ...

After Jesus Christ was crucified outside the city of Jerusalem, the Gospel of John states that his body was placed in “a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid.” But where was this tomb? Where ...

Prehistoric wooden spears found decades ago in Schöningen, Germany were once thought to be around 300,000 years old. It was thus believed that they were made by an early human ancestor known as Homo ...

Although it was not always obvious, the downfall of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany was a long time coming. The reasons for this were Hitler's aggressive expansionist policies and the ideology of the Nazi ...

Caterpillars are remarkable creatures, but a particular species newly identified in the journal Science might just take the cake for strangeness. Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar species ...

In 1987, the British tabloid The Sun published a shocking story. Instead of juicy drama about Princess Diana’s troubled marriage, the public received the disturbing news that Nerissa and Katherine ...

Ans van Dijk was one of the Nazis’ most notorious collaborators during World War II. A Dutch Jewish woman, she posed as a member of the resistance and offered to help Jews find hiding places and ...