Blue jeans are as American as apple pie and bathroom reading. In fact, you might have a pair around your ankles right now. (Image source: Levi Strauss & Co.) Canvassing the Customers In 1850-during the Califor...

History is full of events that would have ended quite dif...  ...Sujata was the most important beverage vendor in history . The mole that made a mountain When William of O...

The 18th amendment to the US constitution which pr...  ...€œNothing is more certain than that when the next history of this age is examined by dispassionate men, Whe...

We've been trying to preserve, repair, or remove our teeth for thousands of years. From the manual bow drill to modern veneers, this post shows how far we have come in the quest for good, or at least functional, teeth....

The settlement of Copan is one of the most fascinating ancient ruins left behind in the world. In 1839, a traveler named John Lloyd Stephens remarked that "Copan lay before us like a shattered bark in the midst of t...

Pat and Diane Farla of Shropshire, England moved into their home three years ago and wondered what a rectangle in the floor represented. On Good Friday, they has a few drinks and decided to find out. They pulled the meta...

Fannie Drummond spent six weeks traveling through Europe in 1920. Her great-great-granddaughter found her diary of the trip, and is posting each entry on a blog exactly 90 years to the day after they were first recorded....

On March 30, 1848, the roar of Niagara Falls went silent as the river ran dry. No one knew what happened to the water. Factories shut down for lack or power, fish died, and everyone freaked out. Thousands of people fill...

Riots in recent American history seem to be thought of largely as a 60's phenomeno...

Sometimes it is amazing how so-called experts can...  ...osthumous apology to Goddard.http://socyberty.com/ history /having-second-thoughts-sometimes-the-less-said-th...