The 20th century was a tumultuous time in history. Two World Wars happened, among many other conflicts. Centuries-old empires fell, and new countries came to be. Keeping up to date with these changes was slower than it was now, and information became obsolete as developments continued.
In an age when technology is used to resurrect forgotten worlds from fragments of data, a team of linguists is...
Before Walt Disney, the internet, and entertainment as we know it today, Victorian-era children had the phenakistoscope.
Although more than a century has passed since the sinking of the Titanic, the tragedy continues to rattle new generations who learn about it. When the 1997 movie Titanic came out, viewers grasped the size of the disaster on the big screen; they saw what was then the largest passenger ship in the world disappear beneath the surface as passengers fought for their lives.
Many cultures have stories of unrequited love and tragedy, but perhaps one of the more famous ones comes from Japan,...
The Lower Pecos Canyonlands in Texas are home to one of the most alluring mysteries in the world of anthropology.
In the final hours before Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, Pompeii was not a city bracing for disaster. It was a city alive with sound, movement, and routine. Morning light spilled across stone-paved streets, warming homes painted in deep reds, ochres, and blacks. To the people of Pompeii, this was just another ordinary day.
More than 1,200 years after they were damaged by an earthquake, the two alabaster statues of Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III—known...
Mark Twain is often hailed as one of America’s greatest writers, partly due to his deep love for his homeland.
The establishment of Japanese internment camps is arguably one of the darkest moments in American history. Between 1942 and 1946, about 120,000 people of Japanese descent were forcibly relocated into these concentration camps. This was done out of unfounded suspicions that Japanese Americans might act as saboteurs or spies following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Throughout his illustrious, decades-long career, filmmaker Ken Burns has produced countless documentaries focused on the United States and its history.
The remains of St.
