There's nothing like seeing a building, city or shipyard returning to the earth to remind us just how fragile our control over nature really is. Travel and Leisure rounded up some of the creepiest abandoned places on Ear...

When you visit a business that's been around for a long time, you usually can make at least some assumptions about it -like the fact that it's reputable. But for us Americans, a business being around "a long time" means...

While it’s very much oversimplified, it appe...  ...implified, it appears that no matter what area of history you study, the processes lead to war. Yeah, war c...

Experimental artificial insemination was attempted as early as 1855, when J. Marion Sims tried it out on slaves without their consent. Of the six women involved, only one got pregnant, and she miscarried. Then in 1884, P...

Margaret Chase Smith was the first of many things in American politics. She was the first woman to serve in both the House and Senate (representing Maine). When she retired from the Senate in 1973, she was the longest-se...

Bill Wurtz compressed the history of Japan into nine minutes. Those nine minutes fl...

The Temple of Bel in Syria was an ancient structur...  ...oyed the building. Now as both a way to honor our history and as a method of resistance against the Islamic...

In 1903, there was no New Year’s celebration...  ...ill coming, the celebration has changed. Read the history

It can be a lot of fun to find an old map and try...  ...e a really handy chart for teaching your kids the history of world geography. Or yourself, for that matter....

There's nothing quite like a good book and that was especially true during the Great Depression where entertainment was short and disposable income was low. Seeing people read during those tough times provides both a loo...