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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Archaeologists exploring the numerous underground chambers at the ancient Chavín de Huántar complex in Peru have found evidence of ritual practices involving hallucinogenic drugs, confirming long-held ...

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 ...

Hoping to sell an ancient Roman mosaic on the black market, a group of would-be thieves in Zile, Turkey livestreamed their illegal excavation — while displaying their location, the date, and one of ...

Robert Maudsley committed his first murder in 1974, killing a man who showed him images of child sexual abuse. Maudsley soon turned himself in to the authorities, who sent him to a psychiatric ...