Embed from Getty ImagesMonday, May 4 will be the...  ...y, May 4 will be the 50th anniversary of the anti- war demonstration on the campus of Kent State Univers...  ...berated throughout the final years of the Vietnam War and the passage of the 26th Amendment in 1971, wh...  ...nt had a complicated relationship...

Have you ever heard of a "bottle whimsey"? It's an...  ...ped with the name of a drugstore.”After the Civil War , handmade bottle whimseys became more popular in...

Peru, Indiana, only has 11,000 people, but an inor...  ...u got its first taste of the circus in 1884, when Civil War veteran and established livery owner Benjamin Wal...

One of the drawbacks of studying history in school...  ...er and richer than we were ever taught. Kings and wars are important, but everything in our civilization has a story behind it, even things as mundane as...

<p><span style="background-c...  ...would periodically have to be vacuumed off. Since civil war broke out, little or no maintenance has been carr...

Both historians and contemporaries note a couple o...  ...ehind this one?”Later, in the depths of the Civil War , Lincoln's humor offended some of his advisors, b...

<p>One of the earliest scientific fa...  ...anford University researchers looked at data from Civil War soldiers and veterans and two more recent cohorts...

Soon after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Ha...  ...ave to remind myself that in the time between the Civil War and World War II, Americans were still making many things by ha...

The ancient city of Babylon, also called Babel, li...  ...raqi forces were suffering from a long, drawn-out war with Iran, the Iraqi ruler decided to rebuild Bab...  ...d; the ceilings are painted with symbols of Iraqi civilization , ranging from Babylonian lions to towers that Sad...

Abraham Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 was not the...  ...e recorded some of the most lasting images of the Civil War and he photographed Lincoln’s second inaugu...  ...o;Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War ,” he might not be mentioned at all.But Wood...