It’s easy to feel nostalgic for the past, and the 1950s might just be the most romanticized decade of the 20th century. While the world was far from a perfect place — inequality was rampant and the ...

The president of the United States is generally seen as a steady hand at the helm, someone who can weather political storms and project an image of normalcy and leadership. That said, once a country ...

Although archaeologists have found out a great deal about the ancient Egyptian empire over the course of several centuries, the empire’s many pharaohs had exerted enough influence over vast lands and ...

Despite constant changes to trends, beauty standards, and fashion boundaries, one constant aspect of the human experience is the desire to strip down to the skivvies and head to the beach. While ...

While they’re the subject of warm, nostalgic feelings now, the ’80s were once a time that seemed to a carry a high-tech future just around the corner. The world was embroiled in international ...

In May of 1804, an expedition commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson set out to map the newly acquired land from the Louisiana Purchase and find a connecting waterway to the Pacific Ocean for ...

Geopolitics can be a funny beast. While Earth’s landmass has stayed virtually identical for most of human history, borders have been drawn and redrawn time again as our planet’s inhabitants jockey for ...

Every decade has its memorable stars — the celebrities who either manage to capture the zeitgeist of the era, or those who become famous through sheer magnetism and charisma. Many of the women on this ...

Although the unprecedented scale of World War I was grand enough to give it the nickname The War To End All Wars, it only took about 20 years after the fact before that perception was proven wrong.

So many kids who grew up in the late ’80s and early ’90s will attest that the first crush they had was on Winona Ryder. While she’s certainly beautiful, that had just as much to do with the smart, ...

In 1971, a man boarded a plane, pulled off a successful hijacking, and parachuted off the plane, vanishing into thin air. It sounds improbable, but it’s something that really happened — and to this ...

The Mayan civilization may have started as far back as 7,000 BCE but was brought to an end in the 17th Century by Spanish colonization. Yet, while that civilization fell, its grand structures and ...