Two years after deadly wildfires hit Lahaina, archaeologists, conservators and congregants have taken on a “CSI” challenge: ...

On August 10, 1846 the United States Senate passed the act organizing the Smithsonian institution. It was signed into law by ...

Wyoming leaders gathered in Jackson last week to make sure Wyoming has a prominent voice in the forthcoming American Women’s History Museum.

Trump signed budget legislation aimed at cutting Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s biggest abortion ...

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do ...

A thing takes place, and it goes into the history books. But whether something even gets remembered and how is often far from simple.

Brick by brick, beam by beam and shingle by shingle, a house where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches ...

Eddie Palmieri, the avant-garde musician who was one of the most innovative artists of rumba and Latin jazz, has died. He was ...

It’s a Monday afternoon, the day after the penultimate episode of The Gilded Age season three has closed with yet another ...

Today in History for Aug. 10: In 258, St. Lawrence was martyred in Rome. Traditional accounts say that he was slowly roasted on a gridiron. (Modern historians have disputed the account's likelihood.) ...

OceanGate co-founder and CEO Stockton Rush fancied himself an adventurer, visionary and MacGyver-esque experimenter. He was ...