Topics in History

Loading Chevrolets onto a train, 1971

A new study shows that agriculture may have emerged in southern China much earlier than previously thought.

Here's a little nugget for you. The great inventor Thomas Edison visited the home of Mark Twain in 1909, and captured footage of 'the father of American literature' (says Faulkner) walking around his estate and playing cards with his daughters,...

A Tri-State man is due in court after his three-year-old son accidentally shot himself.

LONDON, March 15 (Reuters) - Archaeologists said on Friday they had found a graveyard during excavations for a rail project in London which might hold the remains of some 50,000 people killed by the "Black Death" plague more than 650 years ago.

From Smithsonian magazine, a blog about history with all the interesting bits left in

Old Spanish document suggests Irish were in America before Columbus

In what could be one of the most significant discoveries in modern British archaeology, researchers plan to publicize test results from remains found under a parking lot in Britain.

The Wizard of Oz, 1902/1903 - ... Source: i09 via Ozian / Reddit / Oz And Ends This capsule was curated by John Pollock 1900s 1902, 1903, Wizard of Oz

In this age of fast travel and instant digital communications, we tend to forget that not so long ago, distances were subjectively very different.

10MB Hard Drive: $3,495, July 1980

Medieval Bookmark, 14th - Early 15th Century

After nearly two centuries, scientists have identified the plant pathogen that devastated Ireland, killing 1 million people and triggering a mass emigration.

Scientists have decoded the genome of the endangered lobe-finned fish that was long believed extinct until a specimen was found in South Africa in 1938.

Underground Railroad figure, who died a century ago, deserves a fuller portrait, her biographer says

Vladimir Lenin, the Russian communist revolutionary, died from an apparent stroke at the age of 53. His untimely death has been the subject of much controversy and speculation —

(The image is of a right hand with two S's branded beneath the thumb. The old-style of photography reversed images.)

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A model based on Richard III's skull, which was found under a Leicester car park, reveals how the English king may have looked.

Hairdresser Janet Stephens uses ancient tools to recreate the oldest hairstyle in Rome, the seven-braid look of the Vestal Virgin priesthood.

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Anne Boleyn, Queen of England and second wife of Henry VIII was executed within the grounds of the Tower of London. Her