A Chicago-area distillery known for its deep ties to Al Capone and the Prohibition era has uncovered a striking new piece of ...

New archaeological finds on the islands have revealed secrets about one of Britain’s first settlements in the Americas—and the surprising ways it changed the New World By Andrew Lawler Photographs by ...

Archeologists working in Egypt are prohibited from taking artifacts out of the country, even something as common as a potshard or small as a seed. Even so, University of Delaware history professor ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University’s Joshua K. Foreman, an instructor in the Department of Communication and advisor to the student newspaper, The Reflector, has released the latest ...

History podcasts offer millions of listeners what classrooms and textbooks often cannot: making the past feel urgent, human ...

Oct. 26—One of the most bizarre unsolved homicides in Northumberland County turns 120 years old next month. For more than a century, the mystery of the Shamokin Head has intrigued residents since it ...

Learn the history of a site that began as one of Denver’s first cemeteries and its transformation. This episode uncovers the captivating history of a site that began as one of Denver’s first ...

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

Resistance to black history in the classroom is nothing new. This is, in part, due to the prevalence of racist attitudes.