America’s involvement in the Vietnam War was contentious, to say the least. Despite U.S. President Richard Nixon calling on the so-called “silent majority” who supported the country’s actions in ...

John Nash was a brilliant mathematician who is best known for his contributions to game theory. However, his academic career was curtailed due to his struggle with paranoid schizophrenia, which caused ...

The discovery was announced in a statement from Utrecht University, describing the camp as a 22-acre temporary military outpost with a roughly nine-foot-wide defensive rampart, a ditch, and several ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a stunning, first-of-its-kind artifact from an ancient tomb in Gyeongju, South Korea. During excavations at a burial dubbed Tomb 120-2, they came across a 1,400-year-old ...

Uptown, in Harlem, the Apollo Theater remained a neighborhood gem, attracting incredible acts like Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, and Josephine Baker.Jazz stars like Miles Davis and John Coltrane ...

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 American Civil War marked a major turning point in the history of the United States. Less than a century after it was officially founded, the U.S. was at risk of becoming two different countries, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Between the mid-1910s and the 1930s, an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica (EL) spread around the world, affecting more than 1 million people and leading to an estimated 500,000 deaths. 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 ...

According to a Facebook post from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), the figurines were unearthed during an archaeological dig at Tel Malḥata in the Negev Desert’s Arad Valley. Within the ...