Cinco de Mayo celebrates the Mexican victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla, which took place on May 5, 1862.

When towns were young and just finding their way, streets did not necessarily have to follow squares and the compass reading. This photo, taken at some time after 1882 from the courthouse looking ...

Yet earthquakes have been recorded in Florida as far back as 1879. Here’s what you need to know about the earthquake this ...

A man was booked into the Cobb County jail after police say he got inside the Marietta Fire Museum and went on a rampage, ...

Former San Francisco 49ers WR Willie Snead just wants a chance, something he feels his old team never offered.

A mere two miles separates the man who started the Kentucky Derby and the man who saved it. Like Meriweather Lewis Clark ...

I Just Keep Talking,” a collection of essays and artwork by the historian Nell Irvin Painter, captures her wide-ranging ...

The whole afterpart of the Great Republic went to pieces yesterday. There is nothing of her stern left aft of the wheel houses. Note: The steamship wrecked when s it ran aground on Sand Island in the ...

The Forsyte Saga may be the most influential costume drama in the history of British television. The 1967 BBC adaptation of ...

Jordan Peele is set to executive produce a three-part documentary series on the history of Black cowboys for Peacock.

We have all heard about Thomas Edison and the incandescent light bulb which he invented in 1879. But how could you use a ...