Former Food Network star Paula Deen has abruptly closed the Savannah, Georgia, restaurant she started with her two sons ...

Starting in the late 1700s, a bloody series of conflicts between competing kingdoms jostling for power ultimately resulted in the unification of the Hawaiian islands in 1810. That drawn-out process ...

Today in History for Aug. 12: In 1615, the first mass in Ontario was celebrated by Father Le Caron in a Huron village near Thunder Bay.

Science in ancient Egypt and Greece followed a similar pattern: It thrived during good times and fell off in periods of ...

BC: Marc Antony (Marcus Antonius) commits suicide aged 53. 10BC: Birth of Emperor Claudius (Tberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus).

The European Union has achieved something historic. Fifty-five years passed between the first and the second Peace of Thorn, ...

One hundred years ago, illusionist P.T. Selbit put a woman in a box on the stage of London's Finsbury Park Empire and sawed ...