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Robert Noyce was one of the founders of Silicon Valley
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A new partnership with the Digital Public Library of America will put three major LOC map collections online
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Almost four decades after his death, the African-American architect whose work came to define Los Angeles gets his due
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The first motel was supposed to turn into a chain, but it was quickly overtaken by cheaper competitors.
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People mail stolen rocks back to Petrified Forest National Park, but they can't be returned to their original sites
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Its discovery was an accident, but this scientific sample changed the course of medicine forever
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For most of the mid-twentieth century, lead gasoline was considered normal. But lead is a poison, and burning it has had dire consequences
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An early civil rights heroine makes history (again)
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Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin's dedication to pacifism sprang from her personal brand of feminism
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The Beeb’s hosting an edit-a-thon to improve the online encylopedia’s coverage of women
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The classic fall drink has a boozy history going back thousands of years
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It was seen as more humane and relatively painless, but that's not certain
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The find was thanks to a community training dig
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El Comandante had one last dictate
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In the 1800s, America was desperate to look like it had been around for a while, so it was adopting old styles. Really old
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Scribes added the ash to the Roman alphabet so they could phonetically spell sounds that Latin didn't include
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Librarians and archivists made sure the nation’s records didn’t become casualties of World War II
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The metal gate bearing the slogan <i>Arbeit Macht Frei</i>was recently found outside the city of Bergen
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Found in 1904, new research confirms the mummified fragments in a Turin museum likely belong to ancient Egypt's beautiful and revered queen
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Containing 100 lovingly positioned creatures, the site suggests that the ancients could have valued their companion animals as much as we do
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