If you're looking to visit a city on your vacation that is literally a blast from the past, this Georgia city is packed with ...
Across Michigan, the remnants of once bustling towns bear witness to a bygone era. Here's a look at 5 "ghost towns" that once ...
There’s one question I get every time I give a talk. I’m a curator of political history at the Smithsonian Institution, and when I discuss the deep history of political division in our country, ...
The museum has agreed to return two works from 1857 by the Black potter David Drake, who made his ambitious jars while ...
Archaeologists in Troy, Ohio, uncovered an estimated 4,500 historic artifacts beneath the fire-damaged Overfield Tavern, ...
Fox cottage was the family home of the Fox sisters, who started the Spiritualist movement of the mid-1800s. Credit - Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images Influencers organizing around the ...
A rifle which belonged to the 19th Century American sharpshooter who inspired the musical Annie Get Your Gun is going up for ...
The short story collection doesn’t just touch on cultural themes Twain would have appreciated, it deals in the sort of wordplay and conscious undermining of literary formats he popularized.
China’s leader draws on lessons from Lin Zexu, a Qing official whose defiance of Britain led to China’s humiliating defeat ...