For the first time in American history, U.S. soldiers would fight under a foreign command. In 93 minutes, they would help win ...

In January 1945, in the snow of Holzheim, Belgium, First Sergeant Leonard Funk walks into the worst possible mistake—90 armed ...

Dancers from Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia demonstrate the fundamentals of their styles, revealing deep historical roots.

Each January we do a 100-year-lookback. Here’s a snapshot of what life was like in 1926 – in Cleveland, Ohio, the United ...

The emergence of rock and roll music in the U.S. and global culture has been well documented. Musically, everything from the ...

On January 1, 2026, copyrights will expire for comics, books, movies, musical compositions and other creative works from 1930 ...

The year's most exciting discoveries included the site where a young George Washington stopped a friendly fire incident, the ...

While working on a biography of her great-grandmother Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Fiona Donovan unearthed a trove of letters ...

Also in theaters this week, Jack Black and Paul Rudd star in a meta reimagining of Anaconda, Amanda Seyfried in a Shaker ...

The 37mm gun was widely used during World War One because it was the smallest caliber permitted to fire explosive projectiles under the 1899 Hague accords, and one notable variant was built by ...

It’s a foggy night of August 6th, 1915 and in the trenches near Osowiec fortress the Imperial Russians are facing the Germans in what is now modern day Poland. The Germans are using a terrible weapon.