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The banh mi, ramen and other foods considered national dishes that actually have cross-cultural beginnings
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In the medieval period, the Middle East was home to many of the world's wealthiest cities—and to a large proportion of its most desperate criminals
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Overimbibing makes some people's brains shut down, for others, it gets the innovative juices flowing
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The United States Army had several advantages, but the most decisive was the professionalism instilled at West Point
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For nearly 3,000 years lettuce was associated with the Egyptian god of fertility, Min, for its resemblance to the phallus
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This map painstakingly created by a Union cartographer presents a snapshot of the nation’s capital during the war
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Finding prostitutes in the Union-occupied city was no problem, but expelling them was
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A new film revives The Lone Ranger, but has it eliminated the TV series’ racist undertones
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Of all the strange baseball exploits of the Depression era, none was more surprising than Jackie Mitchell’s supposed feat
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Who was “Monseiur Leborgne”?
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The development of the baseball, from shoe rubber and lemon peels to today's minimalist, modernist object
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New technology has given us the chance to re-examine how the Civil War battle was won and lost
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A tribesman who led a doomed revolt against Japan in 1669 still inspires new generations of Ainu nationalists
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Fifty years ago, still spooked by the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. and Soviet Union built a hotline. But it wasn’t a phone
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How the fruit got a bad rap from the beginning
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Aimee Semple McPherson was an American phenomenon even before she went missing for five weeks in 1926.
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Not even a murder trial and the unmasking of her fake pregnancy stopped Emma Cunningham's search for love and legitimacy
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A trove of documents, buttons and other memorable tokens carry the memory of the most historic day in the civil rights movement
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150 years after the battle, the Battle of Gettysburg still looms large over the American imagination
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How founder and CEO Curt Jones is trying to keep the tiny ice cream beads from becoming a thing of the past
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