The discovery sheds new light on the painting’s anti-Catholic message
These cookbooks and domestic guides offer historians a window into the experiences and tastes of black Americans in the 1800s
Marcel Nadjari buried his letter hoping it would one day reach his family
The federal government wanted to retain the documents, but survivors said they were promised confidentiality
The museum recently acquired the 1843 daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams at the Sotheby’s photographs auction
The kitchen was new, but by all accounts it didn't help the cooking
The '57' doesn't actually refer to <I>anything</i>
High-resolution video and 3D scanning brings the SS <i>Thistlegorm</i> to armchair archaeologists everywhere
Radiocarbon dating shows the dugout canoe found in Cocoa, Florida, has a 50 percent chance of being from 1640 to 1680
Gail Halvorsen's efforts made children happy but they also provided the U.S. military with an opportunity
Small injuries are a commonplace problem, but before the Band-Aid, protecting papercuts and other such wounds was a huge hassle
The sixteenth-century debate over how to determine longitude had a lot of participants—and one woman
The supernova provided proof to Galileo, Kepler and others that the heavens were not fixed–although they were wrong about what caused the bright star
Figuring out what they were was just the beginning of a field of research into prions and prion diseases that's still growing
The plaque dedicating the country's new national Holocaust memorial was criticized for making no reference to Jews or anti-Semitism
Cartoonist Bil Keane landed on a formula that worked and he stuck to it
The discovery of an ancient bronze arm is a rare archaeological find
A recipe for pumpkin (or rather, “pompkin”) spice appears in America’s oldest cookbook
Despite numerous patents, nothing really ever came of this fad
Many experts believe that someone alerted Nazi authorities to the hiding place of Frank and her family, but the culprit has never been determined
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