Nearly a hundred years ago, a hastily crafted spaceship crash-landed in Smallville, Kansas. Inside was an infant – the sole ...

Explore the most popular junk foods of each decade. From the early 1900s to the 1990s, junk food evolved dramatically as ...

City council, pushed by public sentiment, took an unprecedented step. They voted to create a city-owned and operated ...

Amid a booming economy and the thriving auto industry, families piled into their cars and hit the country's new interstate system.

The United States was effectively cut off from the rest of the world. As the maritime historian Salvatore R. Mercogliano ...

America's carousels are spinning out of existence. There's a fight to save them. Experts estimate that as many as 3,500 wooden carousels were built at the turn of the 20th century – and only 150 ...

The festival’s free outdoor production, an annual Kansas City tradition since 1993, will set the comedy in the 1950s. The plot involves four men who take an oath to avoid women and focus on ...

At the turn of the 20th century, the United States embraced eugenics, ... His movement’s slogan, “Make America Healthy Again,” frames health as a moral imperative and a political one.

The Bray School opened in 1760 and was North America’s first institution to educate both enslaved and free Black children. However, the Bray School’s underlying goals offer a stark example of the ...

An island off the west coast of Scotland, complete with a ruined 20th century castle, is on the market for £5.5 million.

Goudsmit, in his 1947 book "ALSOS," lays out the reasons why the German scientists failed so miserably, and warns America throughout his career not to repeat Germany’s mistakes. Today, it seems ...