Kunyu Wanguo Quantu and maritime artefacts prove China explored the world earlier than Eurocentric accounts suggest, scholar ...

This was Lake Dakota, a prehistoric giant that once dominated the northeastern part of our state. Stretching nearly 100 miles ...

Unlike most viral origin stories, this one has documentation. The history of 420 is unusual precisely because the people who ...

President Trump pushed GOP-led states to redraw congressional maps in rare, mid-decade moves as a way to gain more Republican ...

The monument’s caves date back 40,000 years, when volcanic activity created lava tubes, which cooled and drained to create ...

Linda McMahon’s Truth Social post about journalist Ida B. Wells is the latest problematic use of AI and other digitally ...

One of my favorite history hikes in Colorado is Homestead Meadows, just south of Estes Park. Homesteaders built eight homes in this area starting in the late 1800s. A sign at the trailhead says the ...

The East Greenwich nature preserve features gorgeous overlooks, waterfalls and the ruins of the town's first cotton mill.

Archaeologists have discovered a rare 16th-century coin that confirms the location of a long-lost Spanish colony in southern ...

Although there have been faster and more direct routes between the nation’s second- and third-largest cities for some time, ...

INSIDE THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, THAT STORY STRETCHES BACK CENTURIES. MAPS AREN’T JUST STATIC DEPICTIONS OF THE WAY THE WORLD IS, BUT THEY PLAY A REALLY ACTIVE ROLE IN MAKING THE WORLD HAPPEN. FROM ...

The histories of some pieces of land in Chicago are well-known. The Thompson Center in the Loop stands on the former site of the Sherman House Hotel. The Chicago Police Belmont Area Headquarters and ...