Finding a weird piece of history hidden out in the wild gives you that instant rush of pure curiosity. Over on Instagram, an ...

When an asteroid struck Earth about 66 million years ago, it ended the age of dinosaurs and transformed life across the planet. The effects of that catastrophe are visible in the fossil record on land ...

A home in Kensington in Brooklyn, N.Y., is decorated with ghosts in celebration of Halloween in 2020. Almost two centuries ago, Irish immigrants brought a festival called Samhain to North America.

The National Museum of American History Is Displaying 250 Objects to Commemorate the Country’s Big Birthday. Here’s the Story ...

Often referred to as Black Independence Day, Second Independence Day, Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, Juneteenth commemorates the day the news of the Emancipation Proclamation made it to enslaved ...

General view of the Long Room in the Trinity College Library, the largest library in Ireland on April 19, 2016 in Dublin. American inventor Henry Ford famously said that history is “more or less bunk.