Until the early 1800s, Americans burned very little coal. The country was thickly forested, and wood was cheap. Most houses had one or more wood fireplaces. The country didn’t have many ...

400 B.C. The Greek physician Hippocrates treats mental disorders as diseases to be understood in terms of disturbed physiology, rather than reflections of the displeasure of the gods or evidence ...

Stephen Salisbury II, one of the wealthiest men in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the 1800s, had interests in banking, canals and railroads. But his collection of fragments from the Star-Spangled ...

On Friday and Saturday evenings, the parking lot outside the Wilkinsburg Beverage Beer Distributor comes alive with the scent of spice and smoke. The line forms early.

Petroleum jelly has been used for years to help with skin moisturizing and healing. However, some types could contain carcinogenic ingredients. For safety, only buy triple-distilled products like ...

Considered a very smart breed, the Aussie was developed in the US in the late 1800s. 9. Basset Hound Height: Up to 15” Weight: 40-65 lbs. Bred in France as a hunting dog, bassets have incredible scent ...

A 144-foot schooner, the Nucleus, is one of the oldest ships to go down along Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast, historians say.

But because community programs lacked the funding they needed, the pendulum swung back the other way by the late 20th century. More people with mental illness ended up in prison. Despite the high ...

In the mid-1800s, the Gold Rush and California statehood opened new migration routes from China, which set off waves of anti-immigrant fears. In words that are echoed by today’s Republican Party ...

In the late 1800s, Euro-American settlers began pushing into the Black Hills, igniting a war with the indigenous population. The U.S. government signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868, giving ...

In the 1800s, the Thames River was thick with human sewage and the streets were covered with horse dung, the removal of which, according to Lee Jackson, presented an "impossible challenge." ...

NOTE: This story was originally published on April 17, 2015. At the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, the Cuyahoga River had long been a pollution problem. Cleveland had been a major industrial ...