The world of ancient history is filled with captivating stories that have captured our imagination for generations. From lost ...

We’ve all grown up hearing tales that started as “That couldn’t possibly be true…” and later morphed into “Wait — it was true?” These are the stories buffeted by time, legend and exaggeration—but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even in the 21st century, when it feels like it's so easy to fact-check with just a quick Google, historical myths still spread ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Germany invading Britain is always the funniest one to me. They could have smashed the RAF into oblivion and still not been able ...

I’ve been a historian for several years. For six years, I studied the past in college. For nearly a decade, I’ve been employed in the history field. Through all that time, one takeaway that is ...

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

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Americans – many of them, anyway – revere the Constitution and the men who framed it. We can recite its preamble with its call to “secure the blessings of liberty” for future generations. Indeed, ...

If you’ve spent time in Duluth, you may have heard that the canal was hand dug by “100 stout men” in 1871, or perhaps that there are tunnels beneath the Glensheen Mansion. Those questions and more ...

Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. The history of medicine, of illness, is every bit as social and cultural as it is scientific. It is a history of people, of their bodies and ...