At any given time, there are countless secret government operations underway in the United States. While this has always been ...

According to ABC News, archaeologists uncovered the remains at a human burial site located near the town of Solvesborg in ...

This is the story of Gianni Versace’s life, murder, and legacy. Born on Dec. 2, 1946, in Reggio Calabria, Italy, to a poor family, Gianni Versace was fascinated by fashion from a young age. He grew up ...

Translator Eric Shahan recently published English-language versions of four centuries-old texts passed down by the samurai that detail how they carried out the suicide ritual of seppuku. Translated ...

Westminster Abbey, England’s most famous church, is consecrated in London. Construction had begun in 1042 after Edward the Confessor, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings, ordered its construction. He ...

President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing “all persons held as slaves” in any state “in rebellion” against the United States. While the Confederacy did not recognize the ...

Built in 1884, the John Evenson was a steam-powered wooden tugboat that operated in Lake Michigan. It played a key role in towing ships through the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal in northern Wisconsin during ...

From "lion whisperer" Jack Bonavita to "America's first supermodel" Audrey Munson, these fascinating figures from history rarely show up in textbooks.

After burning hundreds of Protestants at the stake in the mid-1500s, Queen Mary I of England became known as "Bloody Mary" — and a chilling legend was born. As the legend goes, Bloody Mary is easy to ...

On June 9, 1995, a six-year-old girl named Morgan Nick was stolen from her family. During a Little League game in Alma, Arkansas, she asked her mother if she could go catch lightning bugs with her ...

In a groundbreaking step in the history of cheese, researchers have finally solved the enduring mystery of the bizarre chunks discovered nearly two decades ago that were buried with 3,600-year-old ...

Over the past six months, archaeologists have unearthed more than 50 well-preserved Viking skeletons from graves found in Åsum, Denmark, near the city of Odense. Now, analyses of these skeletons could ...