As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

The UK is covered in ancient sites, and one of them is extremely long - more than 200 miles long, to be exact. Watling Street ...

That was the big question for longtime Steven Spielberg documentarian Laurent Bouzereau (Faye, Music By John Williams) once he teamed up with Amblin and National Geographic to make Jaws @ 50: The ...

The Man Who Invented the Modern Zoo Tested Out His Ideas on People First Carl Hagenbeck believed that animals should be housed in habitats that mimicked their natural environment. Earlier, he’d ...

HIGH FALLS, N.Y. — Ulster County Historian Eddie Moran is set to present a lecture chronicling the history of Louis Bevier Jr., of the Bevier House in Marbletown, on Friday, June 27, according ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Thursday marks Juneteenth, 160 years since emancipation was fully recognized. On June 19, 1865, enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free. The ...

Israeli historian and professor Ilan Pappe said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aggressive policies are tied to the ongoing case against him at the International Criminal Court (ICC ...

COLUMBUS, Miss (WCBI) “It is a day to commemorate and celebrate the freeing of the slaves in all of the southern states.” Said Rufus Ward, Local Historian. “And actually, the commencement of ...

Dick Riggs wasn’t the sort of historian who studied and wrote about epic events or glitzy celebrities. Instead, his interest centered on the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley and the people who lived there.

Comprehensive compilation of Bay boats Greg Philpott is a local marine historian. He and his wife used to own the general store in Opua where a fish and chip shop now stands.

Historian Catherine Corless poses on the site of the former St Mary's Mother and Baby Home, in Tuam, in the outskirts of Galway, western Ireland, a site believed to be containing a mass grave of ...