You might think that modern America is losing grou...  ...rance reared its head over the course of American history

During the Jim Crow era in the United States, it w...  ...was published, it slipped through the cracks into history . The Green Book has been revived in a way, as a...

The lady shown here is wearing "chopines", or...  ...e was taken in 1873 in Damascus. Read more on the history of shoe lifts at TYWKIWDBI. Link

The following is an article from Uncle John's Lege...  ...It's also great bathroom reading. Here's a brief history . BACKGROUND In 1947 Max Gaines, owner of Ed...

Think you know everything about the history of dieting? Fat chance. Slim to None To put...  ...ir systems, not less. That's why, in all of human history , the first person to go on a recorded weight-loss...

Margarine is a substitute for butter, which makes it a fighting word for the dairy industry. Butter producers and margarine producers battled back and forth for the better part of a century to capture the market for spre...

Niagara Falls is made up of three waterfalls from the Niagara River. In 1969, the US Army Corps of Engineers stopped the flow of water over one of them, American Falls, to study the stability of the rock underneath. For...

We have all encountered the common misconception that Columbus' crew was afraid of sailing off the edge of the earth, as if the explorer's view of a round world were something new. Columbus' crew may have been fearful a...

The toilet is one of those things we take for granted, until it breaks down or we go somewhere without them. How did our modern comfort system come about? Toilet plumbing is older than you think! Ancient cultures were s...

Flickr user Beniah Brawn has many sets of fascinating vintage photographs. Russian Types is a collection of early portraits of Moscow and St. Petersburg residents. During the 1860s, several photographers based in Moscow...