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30315c6e73d9843060d5ec349d145ab0 | https://www.history.com/news/free-school-breakfast-black-panther-party | How the Black Panthers’ Breakfast Program Both Inspired and Threatened the Government | How the Black Panthers’ Breakfast Program Both Inspired and Threatened the Government
In 1969, a group of children sat down to a free breakfast before school. On the menu: chocolate milk, eggs, meat, cereal and fresh oranges. The scene wouldn’t be out of place in a school cafeteria these days—but the federal government... |
dfb510ce1b02282426106a8d182d3b45 | https://www.history.com/news/freedom-riders-route-civil-rights-map | Follow the Freedom Riders’ Journey Against Segregation During the Civil Rights Era | Follow the Freedom Riders’ Journey Against Segregation During the Civil Rights Era
HISTORY is proud to join with Google Earth to present an interactive view of the Freedom Rides. On the first day of May, in 1961, a group of 13 activists gathered to prepare for one of the most harrowing and courageous challenges to segr... |
5ccb8790cbdb9494a6ca59f7fc71d0c1 | https://www.history.com/news/freemason-secrets-revealed | One Man Exposed the Secrets of the Freemasons. His Disappearance Led to Their Downfall | One Man Exposed the Secrets of the Freemasons. His Disappearance Led to Their Downfall
In the early morning hours of September 12, 1826, a Batavia, New York stoneworker named William Morgan went missing from the local jail. Morgan was not a man of importance. In fact, he was known as a bit of a drunk—a drifter who, acc... |
12cec569c7176ecd7cdd84485816f689 | https://www.history.com/news/freemasons-facts-symbols-handshake-meaning | 7 Things You May Not Know About Freemasons | 7 Things You May Not Know About Freemasons
Freemason secrets allegedly lurk behind everything from the planning of our nation’s capital to murder. Members of the enigmatic Masonic brotherhood include prominent politicians, Founding Fathers and titans of business. In modern times, Masons are known for donating millions ... |
a5340ee12d5261cb732cef1ce265dac4 | https://www.history.com/news/from-child-star-to-diplomat-remembering-shirley-temple-black | From Child Star to Diplomat: Remembering Shirley Temple Black | From Child Star to Diplomat: Remembering Shirley Temple Black
Born in Santa Monica, California, on April 23, 1928, Shirley Temple began her movie career at the tender age of four, when she was spotted by an agent and cast in a series of one-reel shorts called “Baby Burlesks.” Thanks to her natural charm and the persist... |
139b7b0ebe00c46218eba8fe63346a98 | https://www.history.com/news/from-fins-to-feet-ancient-fish-reveals-link | From Fins to Feet? Ancient Fish Reveals Link | From Fins to Feet? Ancient Fish Reveals Link
In 2004, a team of paleontologists in the Canadian Arctic excavated fossils belonging to a crocodile-like fish called Tiktaalik roseae. The discovery intrigued the scientific community because of the fish’s unusual makeup: Though it had scales and gills, it also had strong l... |
2e9ab368cf1993eead740067d3e18477 | https://www.history.com/news/from-new-york-to-montreal-whats-in-a-bagel | From New York to Montreal: What’s in a Bagel? | From New York to Montreal: What’s in a Bagel?
Whether you prefer yours toasted or not, with scallion cream cheese or just buttered, with lox or jam, chances are you love a good bagel for breakfast. And you aren’t alone – Americans have enjoyed bagels for about 100 years, ever since Polish Jews brought them to New York’... |
76b8409cd9d8d51c593cf922684cd5c9 | https://www.history.com/news/from-pope-urban-vii-to-bloomberg-four-centuries-of-smoking-bans | From Pope Urban VII to Bloomberg, Four Centuries of Smoking Bans | From Pope Urban VII to Bloomberg, Four Centuries of Smoking Bans
1590 Urban VII may have had the shortest papacy of any pope—he died of malaria two weeks after the death of his successor—but he nonetheless managed to issue the first anti-smoking edict in history during his brief reign. Anyone who “took tobacco in the p... |
140c4305a348149a77091721276e7133 | https://www.history.com/news/from-prune-whip-to-pbj-the-evolution-of-kids-menus | From Prune Whip to PB&J: The Evolution of Kid’s Menus | From Prune Whip to PB&J: The Evolution of Kid’s Menus
If you didn’t know anything about American children, and were suddenly shown a kid’s menu from just about any restaurant, what would you think? That kids have an unhealthy relationship with French fries and grilled cheese? That chicken tenders and peanut butter sand... |
8cb7b478302fd6d7a920746b769a08b4 | https://www.history.com/news/from-terrorists-son-to-peace-activist | From Terrorist’s Son to Peace Activist | From Terrorist’s Son to Peace Activist
Zak Ebrahim’s life changed forever when he was seven years old. It was early November 1990 and his mother woke him up in the middle of the night because his father, El Sayyid Nosair, had just been arrested for assassinating the radical anti-Arab Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the J... |
315fbc2f4b5e72a77cd255504671ef6e | https://www.history.com/news/frozen-history-the-story-of-the-popsicle | Frozen History: The Story of the Popsicle | Frozen History: The Story of the Popsicle
However, frozen desserts were around long before that part of our story begins. Ancient Roman slaves were sent up into the mountains to retrieve blocks of ice for their masters, which were then crushed and served with fruit and spice syrups. Marco Polo himself enjoyed sorbets a... |
34a2806d1110e2633763d2eff1d6555c | https://www.history.com/news/galileo-copernicus-earth-sun-heresy-church | When Galileo Stood Trial for Defending Science | When Galileo Stood Trial for Defending Science
Four centuries ago, the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei put his liberty and life on the line to convince the religious establishment that the Copernican model of the solar system—in which the Earth and the other planets revolved around the sun—represented physical realit... |
df2a3ca1ee715957602268329e69bb88 | https://www.history.com/news/galileo-letter-trick-inquisition-earth-sun | Long-Lost Letter Reveals How Galileo Tried to Trick the Inquisition | Long-Lost Letter Reveals How Galileo Tried to Trick the Inquisition
A long-lost letter written by Galileo Galilei reveals an effort by the 17th-century astronomer to soften his public stance against the Catholic Church’s doctrine that the sun orbits the Earth. The letter, uncovered at the Royal Society in London, appea... |
f9675f09602572ebc298d93d2dfa336c | https://www.history.com/news/gary-hart-scandal-front-runner | How Gary Hart’s Sex Scandal Betrayed His Character | How Gary Hart’s Sex Scandal Betrayed His Character
Gary Hart was the presumed Democratic presidential candidate in the spring of 1987 when the Miami Herald reported that rumors of his “womanizing” were true. The ensuing scandal over his extramarital affair with a woman named Donna Rice ended his candidacy. Yet accordin... |
f31192653ec6978d888aae1d46258013 | https://www.history.com/news/gay-batman-fears-batwoman?=mh&cmpid=FACEBOOK_FBPAGE__20180816&linkId=55632863 | Fear of a Gay Batman Brought Batwoman to Life | Fear of a Gay Batman Brought Batwoman to Life
In the mid-1950s, Batman and Robin comics had a tried-and-true formula: The Dynamic Duo encounter the Joker/Penguin/Catwoman, slug it out with Gotham City’s most fiendish villains, save the day, and retire to stately Wayne Manor for some well-earned down time. That basic rh... |
28a60177c673f1337ceb078dc8692f4b | https://www.history.com/news/gay-conversion-therapy-origins-19th-century | Gay Conversion Therapy's Disturbing 19th-Century Origins | Gay Conversion Therapy's Disturbing 19th-Century Origins
In 1899, a German psychiatrist electrified the audience at a conference on hypnosis with a bold claim: He had turned a gay man straight.
All it took was 45 hypnosis sessions and a few trips to a brothel, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing bragged. Through hypnosis, he c... |
7c9be9becc2ec041d2f00786c24fa28c | https://www.history.com/news/gay-rights-sip-in-juslius-bar | The Gay 'Sip-In' that Drew from the Civil Rights Movement to Fight Discrimination | The Gay 'Sip-In' that Drew from the Civil Rights Movement to Fight Discrimination
On an afternoon in the spring of 1966, at the corner of 10th Street and Waverly Place in Greenwich Village, three men set out to disrupt the political and social climate of New York City. After having gone from one bar to the next, the me... |
89387256c81b418ff0abc4eba0ef2e9d | https://www.history.com/news/george-adamski-ufo-alien-photos | George Adamski Got Famous Sharing His UFO Photos and Alien ‘Encounters’ | George Adamski Got Famous Sharing His UFO Photos and Alien ‘Encounters’
To some, he was a prophet. To others, a laughing stock. Even today, more than half a century after his death, George Adamski remains one of the most curious and controversial characters in UFO history.
Adamski had multiple claims to UFO fame. Start... |
04708145d4e193ccfae31326aed32809 | https://www.history.com/news/george-bush-willie-horton-racist-ad | How the Willie Horton Ad Played on Racism and Fear | How the Willie Horton Ad Played on Racism and Fear
A striking portrait hung on the wall of the campaign headquarters for George H.W. Bush’s 1988 presidential run. It wasn’t a slick painting of the vice-president, who hoped to become the next Republican in the White House. Rather, it was a mug shot, a grainy photo of a ... |
11e6af63bc597f7d59e4efb7c2f4cb67 | https://www.history.com/news/george-hw-bush-dead | George H.W. Bush, 41st President, Dies at 94 | George H.W. Bush, 41st President, Dies at 94
George Herbert Walker Bush, a former oil man who was elected to the White House in 1988 after serving two terms as Ronald Reagan’s vice president, died Friday, November 30, at the age of 94. The longest-lived president in U.S. history, Bush passed away just seven and a half ... |
88b50110926966ab1267925ba6b6d118 | https://www.history.com/news/george-washington-and-the-slave-who-got-away | George Washington and the Slave Who Got Away | George Washington and the Slave Who Got Away
When he was just 11 years old, George Washington inherited 10 slaves from his father’s estate. He would acquire many more in the years to come, whether through the death of other family members or by purchasing them directly. When he married the wealthy widow Martha Dandridg... |
e7edf333ba438de1a693102979ff3bb9 | https://www.history.com/news/george-washington-bodyguard-assassination-plot | The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington | The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
In late June 1776, as a massive British fleet prepared to invade New York, a complex drama played itself out at the headquarters of General George Washington’s Continental Army in New York City: a former bodyguard of the general was set to be hanged for conspiracy against the P... |
34db4f23184373a6c44a2847c4af9c2f | https://www.history.com/news/george-washington-farewell-address-warnings | George Washington's Farewell Address Included Three Main Warnings | George Washington's Farewell Address Included Three Main Warnings
In 1796, as he neared the end of his second term, President George Washington was 64 years old and suffering from ills both physical and political. Plagued by painful dentures and rheumatism, and facing increasing attacks from opponents of his policies, ... |
a681fafe75037c620622995794698bea | https://www.history.com/news/george-washington-final-years-death-mount-vernon | George Washington's Final Years—And Sudden, Agonizing Death | George Washington's Final Years—And Sudden, Agonizing Death
George Washington’s final three years of life were not spent in typically relaxed retirement. Active until his last days at his Mount Vernon estate, Washington focused on making his plantation productive, getting his affairs in order and addressing a dilemma t... |
2a042eb246a7b094cd51b150884015db | https://www.history.com/news/george-washington-little-known-facts | 11 Little-Known Facts About George Washington | 11 Little-Known Facts About George Washington
The first president’s formal schooling ended when he was 11 years old, after his father died. That event cut young George off from the opportunity to be educated abroad in England, a privilege that had been afforded to his older half-brothers. Washington’s mother never rema... |
8f2c6f1592e2adc42b76c14ff80ef739 | https://www.history.com/news/george-washington-resignation-circular-letter | George Washington Gave America This Advice the First Time He Tried to Retire | George Washington Gave America This Advice the First Time He Tried to Retire
The American Revolution had just come to an end. George Washington, 51 years old and then the commander in chief of the Continental Army, had resigned his duties and wanted nothing more than to retire to his estate at Mount Vernon and study hi... |
6b8f11203b0f9e83652c84a18c1207d3 | https://www.history.com/news/george-washingtons-hair-found-in-18th-century-almanac | George Washington’s Hair Found in 18th-Century Almanac | George Washington’s Hair Found in 18th-Century Almanac
Gifting someone a lock of your hair might seem a bit odd today. But in the 18th and 19th centuries, hair was a perfectly normal keepsake to give to friends, romantic partners, and the relatives in charge of your family’s hair wreath.
Hair was also a souvenir you mi... |
bbcaa2160fd90148dcb5168354a8fa11 | https://www.history.com/news/george-washingtons-thursday-suppers | George Washington’s Thursday Suppers | George Washington’s Thursday Suppers
We’re taking a look at how George Washington threw a dinner party. As the first American president, Washington forged his own path regarding how much interaction to have with his public, his advisors and his Congress. The new republic was still small, so it was easy for Washington t... |
ac1b668a0dfdcd63a3d531e50b3658e8 | https://www.history.com/news/georgian-era-british-sailors-lived-on-ample-meat-and-beer-study-shows | Georgian-Era British Sailors Lived on Ample Meat and Beer, Study Shows | Georgian-Era British Sailors Lived on Ample Meat and Beer, Study Shows
Britain was almost constantly at war in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and by the early 1800s its navy employed some 140,000 seamen and marines. Doling out food to so many hungry men—and ensuring it would keep during long, unpredictable voy... |
4a71490da9af732c895ec609d99b66bb | https://www.history.com/news/nazca-lines-damaged-by-truck-peru | Truck Drives Over 2,000-Year-Old Desert Hieroglyphs | Truck Drives Over 2,000-Year-Old Desert Hieroglyphs
On January 27, 2018, a truck driver plowed into a UNESCO World Heritage site in Peru. The mysterious ancient site consists of lines drawn in the dirt, meaning it was pretty easy for the truck to damage it.
Roughly 2,000 years ago, members of a pre-Inca civilization ca... |
7f4a13db0d803dcb68527e311a37b85f | https://www.history.com/news/nazca-lines-peru-ai | Nazca Line Discoveries in Peru Suggest the Mysterious Geoglyphs Are Pervasive | Nazca Line Discoveries in Peru Suggest the Mysterious Geoglyphs Are Pervasive
The famous Nazca Lines are intricate designs in the ground that cover an estimated 170 square miles in southern Peru. The large-scale etchings depicting people, animals and objects date to 2,000 years ago, when a pre-Inca civilization laid th... |
da3be42c62c41a8031fd7a0c9213143f | https://www.history.com/news/nazi-ghost-train-loaded-with-gold-may-have-been-found-in-poland | Nazi “Ghost Train” Loaded with Gold May Have Been Found in Poland | Nazi “Ghost Train” Loaded with Gold May Have Been Found in Poland
Stories of the Nazi “ghost train” that disappeared along with its precious cargo into the Polish mountains near the end of World War II date back some 70 years, although historians say they haven’t been able to conclusively prove the train ever existed. ... |
415f6e9a5eb5d356c4c1e6ff28fc45f1 | https://www.history.com/news/neanderthal-cannibalism-baume-moula-guercy-discovery | Neanderthals Resorted to Cannibalism in the Face of Climate Change | Neanderthals Resorted to Cannibalism in the Face of Climate Change
We know that Neanderthals were carnivores, with a diet that consisted primarily—if not exclusively—of meat.
But a new study by researchers in France suggests that around 120,000 years ago, when a period of sudden climate change wiped out many of the ani... |
cb8720a83b8ed3bba1359dd94735243f | https://www.history.com/news/neanderthal-human-interbreeding-mating-discovery | Neanderthals and Humans Were No One Night Stand | Neanderthals and Humans Were No One Night Stand
Many people have a little bit of Neanderthal DNA. In recent years, this discovery has led scientists to conclude that early humans mated with Neanderthals over a single period of time. However, new research suggests that these groups mated with each other over multiple en... |
687515214db7a17cab71e0bc10ae8817 | https://www.history.com/news/neanderthal-spear-throwing-discovery | Neanderthals Were Much Better at Spear-Throwing Than We Knew | Neanderthals Were Much Better at Spear-Throwing Than We Knew
Our understanding of Neanderthals has shifted radically in the past decade. Once thought to be distinct from and far less intelligent than modern humans, Neanderthals have gotten their revenge with studies showing a.) they’re much more capable than we gave th... |
cb8eb0adcc7729bb4ab145a1c4f7fc32 | https://www.history.com/news/neanderthal-tools-workshop-discovery-poland | Neanderthals Churned Out Huge Supply of Tools in Flintstone 'Factory' | Neanderthals Churned Out Huge Supply of Tools in Flintstone 'Factory'
Archaeologists in Poland have discovered a giant 60,000-year-old flint workshop that they believe was used by Neanderthals to make thousands of stone tools.
So far, the researchers have recovered some 17,000 stone products from the site, believed to ... |
c683a553f9949038c5987e94bf2b1afb | https://www.history.com/news/neanderthals-fire-evidence-archaeology | Neanderthals Knew How to Start a Fire | Neanderthals Knew How to Start a Fire
The ability to create fire is one of the biggest developments in our history as a species. Now, archaeologists have recovered artifacts suggesting that our ancient cousins, the Neanderthals, knew how to do it, too.
Neanderthals living in France roughly 50,000 years ago regularly st... |
65a8fe47b8d6ee52a545a751c3948c5a | https://www.history.com/news/neanderthals-may-have-been-artists-too | Neanderthals May Have Been Artists, Too | Neanderthals May Have Been Artists, Too
The British overseas territory of Gibraltar sits on a narrow peninsula of Spain’s southern coast. Just south of “the Rock,” as it is known, is the Strait of Gibraltar, the only passage between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The ancient markings at the center of the... |
89348f07e556a5bab8606e36513f3195 | https://www.history.com/news/neither-snow-nor-rain-nor-heat-nor-gloom-can-stop-the-u-s-postal-service-but-saturdays-soon-will | Neither Snow nor Rain nor Heat nor Gloom of Night Can Stop the U.S. Postal Service, but Saturdays Soon Will | Neither Snow nor Rain nor Heat nor Gloom of Night Can Stop the U.S. Postal Service, but Saturdays Soon Will
The U.S. Postal Service can trace back its roots to before the American Revolution. From the early 18th century, the British government handled colonial mail delivery, which was limited to a few locations in town... |
e17fe799feb1751583a4e59ba2d8cabf | https://www.history.com/news/nellie-blys-biggest-scoops | Nellie Bly’s Biggest Scoops | Nellie Bly’s Biggest Scoops
1. “Our Workshop Girls” Among Bly’s first assignments for the Dispatch was an eight-part illustrated series examining the working conditions for women toiling in dozens of the city’s sooty factories. The series gave readers a rare glimpse at the daily lives and dreams of female laborers and ... |
0dfb9d91f24dc19e1bad5d0caeceb100 | https://www.history.com/news/never-built-new-york-the-big-apple-as-it-might-have-been | Never Built New York: The Big Apple As It Might Have Been | Never Built New York: The Big Apple As It Might Have Been
Our flight of fancy touches down on the west side of Manhattan where one of the city’s most prominent developers, William Zeckendorf, proposed to construct a rooftop airport roughly the size of Central Park above 144 square blocks and the Hudson River. “Zeckendo... |
f1cb8d9564886c5db57be007ef62f94f | https://www.history.com/news/new-bipedal-dinosaur-unearthed-in-venezuela | New Bipedal Dinosaur Unearthed in Venezuela | New Bipedal Dinosaur Unearthed in Venezuela
In a nod to history, paleontologists are calling the new dinosaur Tachiraptor admirabilis. The first of those names is a mash-up of Táchira, the Venezuelan state where they unearthed the fossil, and raptor, which means “thief” in Latin, whereas the second name refers to indep... |
969936f6e848c3f8e94b0949dc026e83 | https://www.history.com/news/new-book-claims-amelia-earhart-was-a-spy-captured-by-japan | Was Amelia Earhart Captured While Spying on Japan? | Was Amelia Earhart Captured While Spying on Japan?
In “Amelia Earhart: Beyond the Grave,” author W.C. Jameson claims that Amelia Earhart was a spy for the U.S. government, and was flying a secret mission to photograph Japanese military installations in the Pacific at the time of what he calls her “so-called disappearan... |
a4a65c649c01467d79525bc0230f4963 | https://www.history.com/news/new-dinosaur-discovery-mansourasaurus-shahinae-egypt | The ‘Holy Grail’ of Dinosaurs Discovered in the Sahara | The ‘Holy Grail’ of Dinosaurs Discovered in the Sahara
Paleontologists piece together our planet’s past, but even they admit that they’re assembling a puzzle without knowing where all the pieces are hidden. So any time a major piece is unearthed —like in the recent discovery of a unique new dinosaur in the Egyptian des... |
cb7abd679872997e1f2c1e91b43b8dd4 | https://www.history.com/news/new-dinosaur-found-at-edge-of-the-world | New Dinosaur Found At Edge of the World | New Dinosaur Found At Edge of the World
The first inkling of what researchers call a “lost world” of Arctic dinosaurs came in 1961, when a geologist for Shell Oil Company stumbled upon a cache of bones while mapping along the Colville River in northern Alaska. Assuming they belonged to large Ice Age mammals, he made no... |
2b75a83fa00b1bbac3d7e44197b0ac7c | https://www.history.com/news/new-dna-techniques-help-scientists-find-origins-of-african-slaves | New DNA Techniques Help Scientists Find Origins of African Slaves | New DNA Techniques Help Scientists Find Origins of African Slaves
In 1985, geneticist Svante Pääbo announced he had sequenced DNA from an Egyptian mummy, making the first-ever such claim relating to genetic material of an ancient human. But after Pääbo realized his results were likely the result of contamination by mod... |
a4890e7e422a4ba5cdabc41e4a592e92 | https://www.history.com/news/new-mammal-discovered-in-the-americas | New Mammal Discovered in the Americas | New Mammal Discovered in the Americas
The identification of the newest species of mammal, the olinguito, solves a long-running mystery in the scientific and zoological community. Over the years, the animal has been misidentified as the olingo, a related member of the raccoon family, when spotted in the wild, included i... |
fe59a909f7c1e26efa07b49ebf1d9383 | https://www.history.com/news/new-research-drills-into-history-of-cavities | New Research Drills Into History of Cavities | New Research Drills Into History of Cavities
The first study focused on the bacterium that causes toothaches, known as Streptococcus mutans. This bacterium, which lives naturally in the mouth, metabolizes the sugars from food and excretes lactic acid, which wears away at the enamel covering the teeth. This process caus... |
c55f5fde18cd79463599d85f9dfc7c24 | https://www.history.com/news/new-richard-iii-mystery-comes-to-light | New Richard III Mystery Comes to Light | New Richard III Mystery Comes to Light
After only two years in power, King Richard III of England was killed in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field, when a force loyal to his rival, Henry Tudor (the future Henry VII), crushed his reckless cavalry charge. Richard’s death at age 32 marked the end of the 330-year-old Pla... |
93a8d9e9676f94f61af928b34b636ec8 | https://www.history.com/news/new-study-confirms-ancient-maya-codex-is-genuine | New Study Confirms Ancient Maya Codex is Genuine | New Study Confirms Ancient Maya Codex is Genuine
In 1966, as the story goes, the Mexican collector Josué Saenz flew to a remote airstrip in the Mexican state of Chiapas. There, a group of unknown men showed him what they said was a Maya codex, an ancient text in book form. The men claimed to have found the document in ... |
ee2f0046579ae0f2e75385f90888afdc | https://www.history.com/news/new-study-finds-the-t-rex-was-easy-to-outrun | New Study Finds the T. Rex Was Easy to Outrun | New Study Finds the T. Rex Was Easy to Outrun
Not only did the Tyrannosaurus rex have tiny arms in relation to its giant body, but according to a new study, it apparently couldn’t move faster than 12 miles per hour.
The consequences of moving faster than this speed were great; its legs would have broken under its own w... |
4329d8c4104c3c261ebbaead8e75a7d4 | https://www.history.com/news/new-study-refutes-theory-of-how-humans-populated-north-america | New Study Refutes Theory of How Humans Populated North America | New Study Refutes Theory of How Humans Populated North America
Archaeological studies have found that human colonization of North America by the so-called Clovis culture dates back more than 13,000 years ago, and recent archaeological evidence suggests that people could have been on the continent 14,700 years ago—and p... |
4402520a034ec1431a1139bfeecd4da0 | https://www.history.com/news/new-study-reveals-source-of-stonehenge-rocks | New Study Reveals Source of Stonehenge Rocks | New Study Reveals Source of Stonehenge Rocks
According to the established wisdom for some 90 years, many of the smaller rocks making up Stonehenge come from the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire, Wales. In 1923, geologist Herbert Henry Thomas first identified an outcrop known as Carn Meini as the source of the spotted dol... |
d7407c91b063c3a73122eed5bc2a67ac | https://www.history.com/news/new-study-suggests-solar-storm-in-1967-nearly-caused-nuclear-war | New Study Suggests Solar Storm in 1967 Nearly Caused Nuclear War | New Study Suggests Solar Storm in 1967 Nearly Caused Nuclear War
In the late 1950s, research branches of the U.S. military began monitoring solar activity and space weather, the disturbances in Earth’s magnetic field and upper atmosphere that can interfere with radio transmissions, power lines and other technologies. B... |
aeaddba93f3e43f555f438325c8e6a14 | https://www.history.com/news/new-years-food-traditions | 9 Lucky New Year’s Food Traditions | 9 Lucky New Year’s Food Traditions
Champagne, noise makers and confetti are all New Year’s Eve staples. But, in some parts of the country and the world, so are black-eyed peas, lentils, grapes and pickled herring. Hailing from the Low Country of South Carolina to Japanese noodle houses to Pennsylvania Dutch homes, thes... |
d47143a5cb9137b99a1ac78c58141e02 | https://www.history.com/news/newly-rediscovered-film-shows-amelia-earhart-shortly-before-fatal-flight | Newly Rediscovered Film Shows Amelia Earhart Shortly Before Fatal Flight | Newly Rediscovered Film Shows Amelia Earhart Shortly Before Fatal Flight
By 1937, five years after she became the first female pilot to fly solo over the Atlantic Ocean, Amelia Earhart was an international celebrity and one of the most recognizable women in the world. Not content to rest on her laurels, she continued t... |
51dc9c396b0a0faea9fc9abdf396025a | https://www.history.com/news/nicholas-winton-britains-schindler-dies-at-106 | Nicholas Winton, “Britain’s Schindler,” Dies at 106 | Nicholas Winton, “Britain’s Schindler,” Dies at 106
Born Nicholas Wertheimer (or Wertheim) in London in 1909, Winton was the son of German Jewish parents who had arrived in England two years earlier. In an effort to assimilate, his parents would later change the family name to Winton and have Nicholas baptized in the A... |
9e5f1318547ff1003da0180cccc2fcfd | https://www.history.com/news/nikola-tesla-files-declassified-fbi | The Mystery of Nikola Tesla’s Missing Files | The Mystery of Nikola Tesla’s Missing Files
After Nikola Tesla was found dead in January 1943 in his hotel room in New York City, representatives of the U.S. government’s Office of Alien Property seized many documents relating to the brilliant and prolific 86-year-old inventor’s work.
It was the height of World War II,... |
655962bd2bc8014f34e464a369e6d36e | https://www.history.com/news/nixon-secret-tapes-quotes-scandal-watergate | 7 Revealing Nixon Quotes From His Secret Tapes | 7 Revealing Nixon Quotes From His Secret Tapes
Richard Milhous Nixon was a paranoid man. Between February 1971 and July 1973, he secretly recorded 3,700 hours of conversations—far more than any president before him.
Initially, government investigators focused on the tapes concerning the Watergate scandal. Over the next... |
68b5d1713566554e866c295def9402ff | https://www.history.com/news/nixon-war-powers-act-vietnam-war-cambodia | How Nixon’s Invasion of Cambodia Triggered a Check on Presidential Power | How Nixon’s Invasion of Cambodia Triggered a Check on Presidential Power
When President Richard Nixon ordered U.S. ground troops to invade Cambodia on April 28, 1970, he waited two days to announce on national television the Cambodian incursion had begun. With resentment already building in the country over the conflic... |
d15fc137f28be38284c66a89e06a8de1 | https://www.history.com/news/nixon-watergate-lawyer-herbert-kalmbach | Nixon’s Personal Lawyer Paid Hush Money to Watergate Burglars | Nixon’s Personal Lawyer Paid Hush Money to Watergate Burglars
Gerald Ford’s presidential pardon of Richard Nixon ensured that the disgraced president never faced legal consequences for his involvement in the Watergate cover-up. But a lot of people in Nixon’s orbit did go to prison—including Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon’s pe... |
5d06b2b71cca28bcbcfbc080f6bc2516 | https://www.history.com/news/north-korea-nuclear-deal-bill-clinton-agreed-framework | Bill Clinton Once Struck a Nuclear Deal With North Korea | Bill Clinton Once Struck a Nuclear Deal With North Korea
President Bill Clinton took the podium on October 18, 1994, with aspeech that reads like a sigh of relief—the announcement of a landmark nuclear agreement between the United States and North Korea. “This agreement is good for the United States, good for our allie... |
fe7b772c475e5c155c8c34f422c532ab | https://www.history.com/news/north-south-korea-divided-reasons-facts | Why Are North and South Korea Divided? | Why Are North and South Korea Divided?
North and South Korea have been divided for more than 70 years, ever since the Korean Peninsula became an unexpected casualty of the escalating Cold War between two rival superpowers: the Soviet Union and the United States.
For centuries before the division, the peninsula was a si... |
dd50042d28d702a80687b6fffa24392f | https://www.history.com/news/notable-women-executed-salem-witch-trials | 5 Notable Women Hanged in the Salem Witch Trials | 5 Notable Women Hanged in the Salem Witch Trials
In early 1692, during the depths of winter in Massachusetts Bay Colony, a group of young girls in the village of Salem began acting strangely. The daughter and niece of the local minister, Samuel Parris, claimed to be afflicted by invisible forces who bit and pinched the... |
3284a742f377906843095e9de8c146f0 | https://www.history.com/news/notes-by-alan-turings-team-found-in-the-walls-of-code-breaking-hut | Notes by Alan Turing’s Team Found in the Walls of Code-Breaking Hut | Notes by Alan Turing’s Team Found in the Walls of Code-Breaking Hut
After completing his Ph.D. in mathematical logic at Princeton University in 1938, Alan Turing returned to his native Britain and a fellowship at King’s College, University of Cambridge. With the outbreak of war with Germany the following year, he joine... |
3ad417f5af3f951a2df38a5888f4cc97 | https://www.history.com/news/nuclear-bomb-moon-cold-war-plan | Why the Air Force Almost Blasted the Moon with an H-Bomb | Why the Air Force Almost Blasted the Moon with an H-Bomb
Detonating a thermonuclear weapon on the moon? It sounds like the bizarro scheme of a deranged comic-book villain—not a project initiated inside the United States government.
But in 1958, as the Cold War space race was heating up, the U.S. Air Force launched just... |
0a022ffd3ed9af0b2eaac266c12f2323 | https://www.history.com/news/nuclear-transportation-u-s-white-trains-cold-war | The Secret 'White Trains' That Carried Nuclear Weapons Around the U.S. | The Secret 'White Trains' That Carried Nuclear Weapons Around the U.S.
At first glance, the job posting looks like a standard help-wanted ad for a cross-country trucker. Up to three weeks a month on the road in an 18-wheel tractor-trailer, traveling through the contiguous 48 states. Risks include inclement weather, aro... |
a1c1cdf8251ffb1c1b943f9fc5f0fa67 | https://www.history.com/news/ode-to-a-haggis-the-history-of-scotlands-national-dish | Ode to a Haggis: The History of Scotland’s National Dish | Ode to a Haggis: The History of Scotland’s National Dish
Perhaps more than any other food, haggis has an exceptionally bad reputation. This Scottish national dish—a mix of sheep’s innards, oatmeal and spices, all wrapped up in a sheep stomach—has been the butt of jokes for years. It’s a dish that people love to hate, e... |
a2fdae3ed08aa70d4971a5965efca00e | https://www.history.com/news/of-knives-and-forks | Of Knives and Forks | Of Knives and Forks
Chances are you only really think about eating utensils when you forget to pack them in your picnic basket. How can you possibly dole out the potato salad or slice into that wedge of Brie without the proper accessories? Back in the day, this wasn’t a problem: for centuries, people only ate with thei... |
fda41e3812011927549530ef933b06b4 | https://www.history.com/news/oil-crisis-1973-truck-strike | When Truckers Shut Down America to Protest Oil Prices—and Became Folk Heroes | When Truckers Shut Down America to Protest Oil Prices—and Became Folk Heroes
At 10:00 p.m. on December 3, 1973, a 37-year old trucker from Overland Park, Kansas named J.W. Edwards stopped his rig suddenly in the middle of Interstate I-80 near Blakeslee, Pennsylvania and picked up his CB radio microphone. The insurrecti... |
48c99b1c66d362132f2e8fedc3e3978d | https://www.history.com/news/oj-simpson-white-bronco-chase-where-now | O.J. Simpson's Getaway Car: What Happened to the White Ford Bronco? | O.J. Simpson's Getaway Car: What Happened to the White Ford Bronco?
For the White Bronco—perhaps the most infamous vehicle of the late 20th century—it’s been a long, strange trip since the freeway chase that riveted the world.
It was midday on Friday June 17, 1994, and Los Angeles police authorities were waiting for Or... |
12ecefd1b56f723380af87c93e3943f1 | https://www.history.com/news/oklahoma-city-bombing-what-happened | Oklahoma City Bombing: What Happened After the Smoke and Dust Cleared | Oklahoma City Bombing: What Happened After the Smoke and Dust Cleared
When two home-grown terrorists detonated a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, killing 168 people, it was, at the time, the biggest terror attack in U.S. history. The event set off the nati... |
f67e197b9f192f1b8ae7d2c81e443889 | https://www.history.com/news/oldest-beer-ancient-brewery-invention | Ancient Beer: 13,000-Year-Old Site May Be the World’s Oldest Brewery | Ancient Beer: 13,000-Year-Old Site May Be the World’s Oldest Brewery
For many people, nothing tastes better than a glass of cold beer, whether enjoyed at the end of a long day of work or while relaxing on a summer afternoon. But brewing beer—not baking bread—could be the reason our ancestors began cultivating grains in... |
1f6ec21f38e2b846f29010ea16774489 | https://www.history.com/news/oldest-bread-grains-jordan | Ancient Grains? Crumbs From World's Oldest Bread Found | Ancient Grains? Crumbs From World's Oldest Bread Found
The charred remains of a 14,500-year-old pita-like flatbread, made from grinding together cereals and tubers, were discovered in a stone fireplace in the Black Desert in Jordan, according to a study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Aca... |
c14528e2e97550872aa37e4e4807a48a | https://www.history.com/news/oldest-cancer-triassic-fossil | Cancer Has Been Around Since the Dawn of the Dinosaurs | Cancer Has Been Around Since the Dawn of the Dinosaurs
A 240 million-year-old fossilized leg bone has yielded evidence of what might be one of the earliest known cases of cancer ever found.
Scientists in Germany detected a highly malignant tumor in the fossilized leg bone of a stem turtle, which lived during the Triass... |
dea3c02a4c2eb24dc944753132176352 | https://www.history.com/news/oldest-cheese-ancient-egyptian-tomb | Lumpy, 3,000-Year-Old Cheese Recovered From Egyptian Tomb | Lumpy, 3,000-Year-Old Cheese Recovered From Egyptian Tomb
For almost as long as people have kept cows, sheep or goats, they’ve made cheese out of their milk. The ancient Egyptians were no exception, making solid cheese to supplement their already hearty diet of beer, bread, onions and lentils. Archaeologists working on... |
7c643691bab1d91396fd6f0af3d595d5 | https://www.history.com/news/oldest-human-footprints-in-north-america-discovered | Oldest Human Footprints in North America Discovered | Oldest Human Footprints in North America Discovered
Archaeologists have discovered the oldest known human footprints in North America. Specifically, they’ve discovered footprints from three ice-age humans who walked the shores of a Canadian Island approximately 13,000 years ago.
Researchers believe that the 29 clay foo... |
94d46ba0b058d6956879b1c3b17409e1 | https://www.history.com/news/oldest-human-fossil-found-outside-africa | Stunning New Fossil Suggests Humans Left Africa Far Earlier Than We Thought | Stunning New Fossil Suggests Humans Left Africa Far Earlier Than We Thought
An international team of scientists has discovered a Homo sapiens fossil in Israel that is somewhere between 175,000 and 200,000 years old, making it the oldest modern human fossil ever found outside Africa.
The discovery of the upper jawbone f... |
f8ba33d5873a7c284ba92c54099fee56 | https://www.history.com/news/oldest-known-inscription-of-10-commandments-goes-up-for-auction | Oldest Known Inscription of 10 Commandments Goes Up for Auction | Oldest Known Inscription of 10 Commandments Goes Up for Auction
According to the Old Testament, God revealed the 10 Commandments, carved on two stone slabs, to Moses on Mount Sinai. As a central part of the shared Jewish and Christian heritage, the set of divine precepts—including instructions to worship only God and h... |
0d074747be31de4a8042e4961f4e4a37 | https://www.history.com/news/oldest-message-in-a-bottle-discovery | World’s Oldest Message in a Bottle Discovered in a Gin Bottle | World’s Oldest Message in a Bottle Discovered in a Gin Bottle
The oldest message in a bottle ever discovered has washed up on a shore in Western Australia. Only this wasn’t sent by a castaway as an S.O.S. message—rather, it’s a vestige of an old German experiment, thrown into the ocean 132 years ago.
A woman named Tony... |
0a8487798f4560e7ca7256cc5395fd57 | https://www.history.com/news/oldest-mummy-discovery-spirit-cave-shoshone | World's Oldest Natural Mummy Identified by DNA | World's Oldest Natural Mummy Identified by DNA
Scientists discovered the ancient human skeleton known as the “Spirit Cave Mummy” back in 1940, hidden in a small rocky cave in the Great Basin Desert in northwest Nevada. But it wouldn’t be until the 1990s that radiocarbon dating techniques revealed the skeleton was some ... |
1340a7f81a1c768e985ac068f556ab99 | https://www.history.com/news/oldest-surviving-uss-arizona-crewman-dies-at-100 | Oldest Surviving USS Arizona Crewman Dies at 100 | Oldest Surviving USS Arizona Crewman Dies at 100
With winter’s teeth about to bite into his native New England, Joe Langdell relished another mild Hawaiian night. The 27-year-old, who had left his job as a junior accountant in Boston to enlist in the U.S. Navy the year before, had recently been commissioned as an ensig... |
4fd00a207e30d0a1be420dd6ef22bb0d | https://www.history.com/news/oldest-us-presidents | Who Are the Oldest U.S. Presidents? | Who Are the Oldest U.S. Presidents?
When the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention pondered the question of what age a president should be, the big concern wasn’t about the office-holder being too elderly, but too youthful.
“George Mason was the principal advocate for age requirements for elective federal off... |
fc2f010a12624fe2bc94fc9f87a69293 | https://www.history.com/news/olympics-postponed-cancelled | Olympics: Times the Games Were Postponed, Cancelled or Disrupted | Olympics: Times the Games Were Postponed, Cancelled or Disrupted
Since the opening of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, the international sports competition has only been canceled three times: once during World War I (1916) and twice during World War II (1940, 1944). Until the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak, which postpo... |
650e45bf63a1d1fa77b4599aed087fef | https://www.history.com/news/once-forbidden-foods | Once-Forbidden Foods | Once-Forbidden Foods
One of the most well-known stories from the Bible is that of Adam and Eve, who disobeyed God by eating fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden. Although most people immediately associate that forbidden fruit with a bright and shiny red apple, the Bible never actu... |
10d201b215cc59438f6baa808484860f | https://www.history.com/news/one-mystery-of-a-famous-kiss-is-solved-thanks-to-physics | One Mystery of a Famous Kiss is Solved…Thanks to Physics | One Mystery of a Famous Kiss is Solved…Thanks to Physics
Immediately after Truman made the announcement of Japan’s surrender in World War II, at 7:03 p.m. on August 14, 1945, an American sailor walking through Times Square grabbed a nearby nurse and bent her over backwards in a passionate-seeming kiss amid the cheering... |
1919f550065e40fe5cb8b316bca1c42b | https://www.history.com/news/one-of-dc-s-best-statues-is-hidden-in-plain-sight-outside-a-starbucks | One of D.C.’s Best Statues is Hidden in Plain Sight Outside a Starbucks | One of D.C.’s Best Statues is Hidden in Plain Sight Outside a Starbucks
Location: The A. Philip Randolph monument in Washington, D.C.’s Union StationExpert: Touré Reed, Professor of History at Illinois State University
Why it’s worth a visit: Thousands of people pass by a significant historic monument every day at Wash... |
bdc1ca4fd0afa66e18f05342683aefd1 | https://www.history.com/news/one-of-historys-oldest-wine-cellars-discovered | One of History’s Oldest Wine Cellars Discovered | One of History’s Oldest Wine Cellars Discovered
The 75-acre ancient city, known as Tel Kabri, was founded around 1700 B.C., although the earliest evidence of settlement in the region dates back more than 16,000 years to the Neolithic period. One of the most influential Canaanite cities of the Bronze Age, Tel Kabri was ... |
97c5385da6607e1478403ea663aa6e21 | https://www.history.com/news/one-of-shakespeares-rare-first-folios-discovered-in-french-library | One of Shakespeare’s Rare First Folios Discovered in French Library | One of Shakespeare’s Rare First Folios Discovered in French Library
Edited by William Shakespeare’s friends and fellow actors John Heminges and Henry Condell, the first folio of the Bard’s work was printed in a run of about 800 copies in 1623, seven years after his death. It contains 36 of Shakespeare’s 38 plays, and i... |
8dc4b9619bd7fbc9e07214742f517ee6 | https://www.history.com/news/one-year-ago-a-gunman-entered-pulse-nightclub-soon-it-wiil-be-an-official-memorial | Remembering The Pulse Nightclub Shooting | Remembering The Pulse Nightclub Shooting
Barbara Poma originally opened Pulse in 2004 to honor her brother, John, whom she lost to HIV/AIDS in 1991. She wanted to create a space that would embody the loving and accepting spirit her brother had found in underground gay nightclubs.
At 2:02 a.m. on June 12, 2016 the lives... |
847c15ddcc25e06395835d4740a4555a | https://www.history.com/news/opening-of-secret-un-archive-yields-new-holocaust-revelations | Opening of Secret UN Archive Yields New Holocaust Revelations | Opening of Secret UN Archive Yields New Holocaust Revelations
For decades, the attempts made by the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC) to prosecute the horrific crimes committed by Nazi Germany during World War II have been shrouded in secrecy. This week, tens of thousands of files that make up the commission... |
ebacc9e58db5a0d30e57c050f20f5d56 | https://www.history.com/news/openly-gay-revolutionary-war-hero-friedrich-von-steuben | The Revolutionary War Hero Who Was Openly Gay | The Revolutionary War Hero Who Was Openly Gay
Gay men have always been part of the American military. In an era before gay marriage or open pride, military men fell in love, formed passionate friendships and had same-sex encounters. Due to social and official discrimination, though, most of their stories have gone unto... |
7bd9a67c5746a566f3c7b856fc692a3c | https://www.history.com/news/operation-wetback-eisenhower-1954-deportation | The Largest Mass Deportation in American History | The Largest Mass Deportation in American History
July is scorching in Mexicali. The Mexican city just across the border from Calexico, California, averages 108 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer, but temperatures often swell into the 120s.
In 1955, thousands of disoriented people roamed the city’s streets as the sun bore... |
d6a0c8999a7851a223a74bfab33da15e | https://www.history.com/news/oss-the-predecessor-of-the-cia | OSS: The Predecessor of the CIA | OSS: The Predecessor of the CIA
Before 1940, the U.S. State Department, FBI and the different branches of the military all had their own security and counterintelligence operations, which did not easily share information with each other. With another war raging in Europe, however, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted... |
c8e1398f1826764a5ec406f9ee028e80 | https://www.history.com/news/outdoor-survival-tips | 7 Frontier Survival Hacks Worthy of Daniel Boone | 7 Frontier Survival Hacks Worthy of Daniel Boone
Steven Rinella stands at a curious intersection in American culture. He’s an adventurer, a conservationist, a hunter, a TV host, a best-selling author with an MFA in writing, and a student of the history of frontier explorers like Daniel Boone. Not many figures can tell ... |
13bcd6ec0469ebe7805262848e77a1d5 | https://www.history.com/news/oyster-stew-on-christmas-eve-an-american-tradition | Oyster Stew on Christmas Eve: An American Tradition | Oyster Stew on Christmas Eve: An American Tradition
Early Americans were absolutely oyster crazy. When the first English settlers arrived at Plymouth Rock, oysters were a reliable and tasty source of nutrition. Native Americans had already been harvesting them for at least 3,000 years. As the young colony’s population ... |
f52824a7fb77ce1427d7220ea90f01c8 | https://www.history.com/news/pandemic-world-war-i-roaring-twenties | When WWI, Pandemic and Slump Ended, Americans Sprung Into the Roaring Twenties | When WWI, Pandemic and Slump Ended, Americans Sprung Into the Roaring Twenties
The unprecedented death and destruction wrought by World War I leveled economies the world over, but the situation was different in the United States.
In fact, 1914 to 1918 were mostly boom years for the U.S. as the federal government poured... |
c0273736d3ffd3f85bcd2e8550fa9517 | https://www.history.com/news/pandemics-advances | 5 Advances That Followed Pandemics | 5 Advances That Followed Pandemics
Pandemics have ravaged human civilizations through history. But global health crises have also sparked progress in culture and society, changing lives for the better. Water and sanitation systems improved and revelations led to innovations in limiting disease spread, as well as in tre... |
c288f85bfb93567044668c0eef5dbadc | https://www.history.com/news/pandemics-end-plague-cholera-black-death-smallpox | How 5 of History’s Worst Pandemics Finally Ended | How 5 of History’s Worst Pandemics Finally Ended
As human civilizations flourished, so did infectious disease. Large numbers of people living in close proximity to each other and to animals, often with poor sanitation and nutrition, provided fertile breeding grounds for disease. And new overseas trading routes spread t... |
e1e890bca9590f9b0e5d82038de1f345 | https://www.history.com/news/pandowdy-buckles-slumps-and-grunts-americas-forgotten-apple-desserts | Pandowdy, Buckles, Slumps and Grunts: America’s Forgotten Apple Desserts | Pandowdy, Buckles, Slumps and Grunts: America’s Forgotten Apple Desserts
We’ve all enjoyed a nice slice of apple pie, a piping hot apple turnover or a dish of fresh apple crisp. But when was the last time you dug into an apple Brown Betty? How about a pandowdy, or a buckle? And when have you last baked an apple slump f... |
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