The Liljenquist family collected thousands of photographs of Civil War soldiers over the years. Brandon Liljenquist saw a collection of war photographs from Iraq and Afghanistan and was inspired to make the Civil War pho...

On December 1, 1955, a 42-year-old secretary named Rosa Parks disobeyed an order from bus driver James Blake to give up her seat so that a white man could have it. Parks was arrested for her actions, which led to the Mon...

This slide show is subtitled "Pistols, canes,...  ...canes, bowie knives, and fireplace tongs: a brief history of congressional violence." Read 14 accounts of o...

As the 19th century turned into the 20th century, woman tried their hands at sports that they were previously prohibited from participating in. See vintage photographs of women playing soccer, baseball, cricket, bowling,...

Is it possible that comic book writers have super powers of their own? Cracked has four examples from Superman comics (and one each from Wonder Woman and Spider-Man) that were eerily prescient of real-world events, from...

Remember, remember the fifth of November... Oh yes...  ...l as those of nine other folk heroes from English history . Link

It's hard to believe today, but less than 100 years ago, there was a great debate about whether women should be able to vote. The anti-suffragists declared that voting women would abandon their families, they would becom...

October 27 marks the 152 birthday of one of our na...  ...and created a “Roosevelt Museum of Natural History ” at home with two of his cousins.The suppos...  ...ions to write a paper entitled “The Natural History of Insects.” As his health started to impr...  ..., Roosevelt became the yo...

Minnesotastan found a delightfully thorough post about alphanumeric phone numbers that were in use through the biggest part of the 20th century. Remember the Glenn Miller song "Pennsylvania 6-5000"? That was a phone numb...

Pre-1869 A HEARSE WITH NO NAME Long before ambulances hit the scene, hearses served as the first responders to emergencies. The people who decide if a critically-injured patient goes to the hospital or the morgu...