The original vacuum cleaner required a number of improvements before becoming the household staple it is today
The groundbreaking mathematician and computer scientist who spent 2 years at Princeton wrote that he 'detests America' in newly found documents
Fifty years ago today, Thurgood Marshall became a Supreme Court justice. He kept telling the story of the Groveland Four
The Library of Congress has uploaded 12,000 items relating to the 'ten-dollar Founding Father without a father'
Between 1849 and 1874, more than 100,000 workers traveled from China to Peru, where they faced discrimination and abuse
Nobody really knows exactly where this dish came from, but it's not China
If true, it would mean the ancient culture figured out this mathematical field more than a millennia before its known creation
The inventor of television’s career presages many of the good and bad things about Silicon Valley
1961, the year Hemingway died, was a complicated year for U.S.-Cuba relations
Where he got the guinea pig from remains a mystery
Ham radio underwent a resurgence in the United States after Hurricane Katrina
Sheela-na-Gigs, which appear to depict elderly women exposing exaggerated genitals, have long fascinated scholars and amateur historians
This American institution has changed a lot, but some things remain just the same
The first 'can opener' was a hammer and chisel
Farmer was the first prominent figure to advocate scientific cookery. Her cookbook remains in print to this day
A Kent State archaeologist is testing the innovative engineering of the Clovis people, one of the earliest communities to inhabit North America
Although it is widely known, 'Stockholm syndrome' is not recognized by the APA
Several counties in what is today Tennessee tried to form their own independent state
Using X-ray fluorescence, researchers have mapped the pigments used on a crumbling painting in Herculaneum
Battered, but not broken, Fritz Koenig's "Sphere" is being reinstalled near its original location at Ground Zero
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