In the late 1800s, a simple invention changed life across the American frontier. Barbed wire allowed farmers to fence their land, ending the era of the open range and transforming the Wild West.

In the early 1800s, ice was one of the most valuable commodities on Earth, so rare that people called it “white gold.” A Boston entrepreneur built a vast global empire shipping massive blocks of ...

In 1888, Louis Le Prince turned his film camera, his new invention, onto Leeds Bridge, making the finished result one of the ...

Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every ...

The Corinth Canal is an almost four-mile feat that realized a 2,500-year-old dream of linking the Gulf of Corinth with the ...

Girard-Perregaux’s Minute Repeater Flying Bridges, launching today, is as authentic as it gets in the crowded genre of ...

The 19th-century poet is the subject of a new film by the Ewers Brothers, Ken Burns and Don Henley that urges us to travel ...

Zora Neale Hurston remains one of America's best-known authors. Charles Henry Turner developed landmark studies about the ...

The History Museum on the Square and Sharing Stories of the Crossroads has preserved headlines and stories from a century ago, including a record strawberry crop in 1926, the 50th anniversary of the ...

The batteries last more than 12,000 charge cycles, making them a competitive storage method that could one day dethrone ...

British watchmaking is experiencing a revival, with over 100 brands now operating and combined annual sales reaching £200m, ...

Long before betting app algorithms, gamblers in the Queen City would get cheated out of their money at police-run ...