“I 1der if you got that 1 I wrote 2U B4.” The note sounds like a text message exchanging between teenagers. In fact, it was written some 130 years before the arrival of the written language seen on mobile phone ...
The 19th-century artist's first published bird illustration has finally been found on old bank notes.
Documents riding with the ill-fated Donner Party yield new clues about Lincoln's life.
The Justice Department announced today the United States will exchange the 10 Russians agents captured last month in a spy ring.
A small, broken cosmetic glass jar, fragments of rouge from a woman's compact, buttons, parts of a pocket knife that was beaten apart to detach the blades, a cloth that appears to have been shaped as a bow -- are ...
An unusually long-lasting drought plagued early colonists of the first permanent British settlement in North America.
The last wish of one of America's greatest authors is about to come true: Mark Twain's biography will hit stores 100 years after his death. According to a report by The Independent, the late novelist, whose works include "Tom Sawyer" ...
With a history steeped in battles and rebuilding, Mexico has earned every right to be proud. Today marks a Mexican holiday that more and more people every year celebrate in the United States, many not knowing why they do it: ...
The first president of the United States may not have been able to tell a lie, but he apparently had no problem dodging library fines. More than 220 years ago, George Washington walked out of the New York Society Library ...
April 19 is a heavy day in history. Fifteen years ago, a truck bomb blasted through the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, claiming the lives of 168 people. Two years prior, April 19 marked the end of the 51-day siege ...
