If your town is set between two bodies of water, it's going to be hard for you to have a bad time. This small Pennsylvania ...

On September 15th, 1944, the U.S. 1st Marine Division landed on the island of Peleliu, expecting a short, brutal assault to capture an airfield. Instead, they encountered a landscape of coral, heat, ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

No one doubts that the US is a politically and culturally divided nation. Contrary to much of public opinion, politicians ...

Long before Lake Mead became a symbol of drought and decline, its cliffs echoed with the roar of trains carrying materials to build the Hoover Dam. The Historic Railroad Trail follows those abandoned ...

For Alyssa Thiede, the curator at Hennepin History Museum, her connection to a new exhibit about an enslaved woman freed ...

Thinking about strawberries and history, I can’t help but picture the strawberry-picking scene in the early 19th-century ...

Among the most popular books of the time, bestiaries were filled with real and mythical animals and their lore, the ...

The show features more than 50 paintings, manuscripts, textiles and other artworks created in Western Europe between the 13th ...

A remarkable Bronze Age discovery near Dereham in Norfolk, UK has left archaeologists buzzing with excitement about three rare lead ingots found alongside broken bronze tools. The hoard, unearthed by ...

Authors David Seymour, right, and Keith Highiet look at the second edition of “StaniStory: Change and Continuity in ...