The U.S. Marine Corps and Army complained about the first Colt revolvers they tested. The guns had a strange hammerless design that was about sixty years too early. Soldiers used to regular guns with ...

Room 33, a mere 6-by-6-foot space at Pueblo Bonito, served as the burial crypt for a powerful family that ruled Chaco Canyon for 330 years. It all began around AD 800 with a man in his 40s who died ...

On August 8, Gansevoort sent Willett through enemy lines to Albany seeking more help. Growing unhappiness among the Native allies weakened St. Leger’s ability to keep up an effective siege as days ...

In 1584, two Carolina Algonquian men named Manteo and Wanchese made history as the first Native Americans to cross the Atlantic. English explorers took them from Roanoke Island to London, where they ...

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If a few terms felt like inside jokes, the cure is simple: grab a tube, point the rig toward the Valley or the ’Tooths, and stop for a huck shake on the way. Learn to say “CDA” and “Poky” like you ...

The ancient aquaculture system at Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park shows how Hawaiians mastered both land and sea ...

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Many historians now point to that bloody night on Pottawatomie Creek as the first shots of what would become the American ...

Congress passed the Refugee Relief Act in 1953, which let 2,000 Palestinian families start new lives in America. Men like ...

In spring 1864, Union General Banks led 30,000 troops up the Red River toward Shreveport, the Confederate capital of ...