Held on this day in 1895, the 54-mile round trip took more than ten hours and involved accidents with streetcars, horses and ...

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

Trillions of insects move around the globe each year. Scientists are working on new ways to map those long-distance journeys ...

The artist used white chalk to draw on blank advertising panels inside subway stations. Now, 31 surviving examples of these ...

Pre-Maya hunter-gatherers built the system in Central America in response to a drought between 2200 and 1900 B.C.E., ...

The idea suggests prehistoric people built a ring of stone circles in modern-day Dartmoor National Park around the same time ...

Travel to the American South, Vietnam and beyond with this year’s best cookbooks, memoirs and historic deep dives ...

Through Indigenous weaving workshops and environmental science projects, the Smithsonian engages in co-learning projects to ...

The museum has been staging exhibitions featuring employee art since 1935. This year's show is only the second in history ...

During a 1982 experiment, researchers recorded the unusual sound, termed “bio-duck.” Now, a researcher suggests they may have ...

Located in an English churchyard, the stone was inscribed with the name "Ebenezer Scrooge" for the 1984 movie. Police are ...

Ethiopian wolves like to lick up the flower nectar of red hot poker plants, and researchers have caught the behavior on camera ...