Throughout the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the early years of the Gilded Age, Thomas Nast used his political cartoons published in Harper's Weekly to satirize current events, expose corruption, and ...

New York City is always changing. From decade to decade, the city seems to transform, sloughing off its old skin and emerging as something entirely new. This was especially true in 1950s New York City ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a stunning, first-of-its-kind artifact from an ancient tomb in Gyeongju, South Korea. During excavations at a burial dubbed Tomb 120-2, they came across a 1,400-year-old ...

John Nash was a brilliant mathematician who is best known for his contributions to game theory. However, his academic career was curtailed due to his struggle with paranoid schizophrenia, which caused ...

During recent excavations in Jerusalem’s ancient City of David area, an archaeologist pulled a gold ring out of the dirt. At first, researchers thought that the ring, found in excellent condition, ...

Caterpillars are remarkable creatures, but a particular species newly identified in the journal Science might just take the cake for strangeness. Dubbed the “bone collector,” this caterpillar species ...

Archaeologists exploring the numerous underground chambers at the ancient Chavín de Huántar complex in Peru have found evidence of ritual practices involving hallucinogenic drugs, confirming long-held ...

Between the mid-1910s and the 1930s, an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica (EL) spread around the world, affecting more than 1 million people and leading to an estimated 500,000 deaths. The ...

Robert Maudsley committed his first murder in 1974, killing a man who showed him images of child sexual abuse. Maudsley soon turned himself in to the authorities, who sent him to a psychiatric ...

Last year, a metal detectorist stumbled upon a tiny treasure in Leeds, England. While scouring a local field, they came across a cross-shaped pendant, which experts say dates back to the 8th century C ...

The rock and roll scene in the late 1960s was undoubtedly a decade-defining movement. Beatlemania was in full force, and the Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience were ...

Twelve-year-old Mary Beatrice Kenner had an unusual hobby. She enjoyed wandering the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C., wondering if she might one day hold a patent for one of her ...