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69e58d29101c0bf39f57bad74d3dbbc3 | https://www.history.com/news/parking-lot-remains-confirmed-to-belong-to-richard-iii | Parking Lot Remains Confirmed to Belong to Richard III | Parking Lot Remains Confirmed to Belong to Richard III
Richard III may have ruled England for only two years, but he stands out in many minds as one of the country’s most notorious kings. At the age of 32, he was killed during the Battle of Bosworth Field, in which his supporters faced off against the army loyal to Hen... |
8993fa144241442eb81adbe2b891caa6 | https://www.history.com/news/parkland-conspiracy-actors-civil-rights | This Isn’t the First Time Conspiracy Theorists Have Accused Student Activists of Being ‘Paid Actors’ | This Isn’t the First Time Conspiracy Theorists Have Accused Student Activists of Being ‘Paid Actors’
In the week after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida, conspiracy theorists started spreading lies about it. They said that some of the surviving students giving media intervi... |
8662ece397f4891431c6e96ee83085c5 | https://www.history.com/news/parthenon-acropolis-ancient-greece-engineering | How the Ancient Greeks Designed the Parthenon to Impress—And Last | How the Ancient Greeks Designed the Parthenon to Impress—And Last
Few monuments in the world are more recognizable than the Parthenon. Sitting atop a limestone hill rising some 500 feet above the Ilissos Valley in Athens, this soaring marble temple built in tribute to the goddess Athena brings the glory of ancient Gree... |
1bdf943cddd31aa598d9feac111b3d20 | https://www.history.com/news/patrick-henrys-liberty-or-death-speech-240-years-ago | Patrick Henry’s “Liberty or Death” Speech | Patrick Henry’s “Liberty or Death” Speech
Revolution was in the air in early 1775. Only a few months earlier, delegates from the American colonies had held the first Continental Congress and sent Britain’s King George III a petition for redress of grievances, among them the repeal of the so-called “Intolerable Acts.” A... |
59c1c1202b8cf79dfe88c2bfdc1636c0 | https://www.history.com/news/paul-harvey-god-made-a-farmer | How a Radio Host Painted an Indelible Picture of American Farm Life | How a Radio Host Painted an Indelible Picture of American Farm Life
Let me tell you the “rest of the story,” as the long-gone radio legend Paul Harvey would say.
In the Kansas winter of 1971, when I was 15, we’d walk our farm driveway, four-tenths of a mile, with the north wind beating against our backs. By the time Pu... |
510e48b749954797beba137f8430596e | https://www.history.com/news/peaceful-transfer-power-adams-jefferson | How Did the Peaceful Transfer of Power Tradition Begin? | How Did the Peaceful Transfer of Power Tradition Begin?
In the early morning hours of March 4, 1801, John Adams, the second president of the United States, quietly left Washington, D.C. under cover of darkness. He would not attend the inauguration ceremony held later that day for his former friend—now political rival—T... |
78059a4ba26e028204d24ea5591a463d | https://www.history.com/news/pearl-harbor-1941-from-a-sailors-perspective | Pearl Harbor, 1941: From a Sailor’s Perspective | Pearl Harbor, 1941: From a Sailor’s Perspective
About 7:45 a.m., through the crackle and buzz of interference, gunnery and anti-aircraft officer Benny Mott was jolted by pilots’ voices rising with alarm over the radio transmitter aboard the USSEnterprise. They were shouting to one another.
“Hey, did you see that army p... |
dbc755c8ca618f96222f57df22f0414d | https://www.history.com/news/pearl-harbor-japan-kamikaze-world-war-ii | Japanese Dive Bombers at Pearl Harbor Were Not Kamikaze Attacks | Japanese Dive Bombers at Pearl Harbor Were Not Kamikaze Attacks
On the infamous morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese fighter pilots made final arrangements for their deaths. The aviators penned farewell letters and slipped them into envelopes along with locks of hair and clipped fingernails that their loved ones could... |
d3fff3b31c099f1f33f98ac9f35e6731 | https://www.history.com/news/pearl-harbor-veteran-japan-bomber | Pearl Harbor Veteran Recalls Coming Eye-to-Eye With a Japanese Bomber | Pearl Harbor Veteran Recalls Coming Eye-to-Eye With a Japanese Bomber
Paul Kennedy was expecting to sleep in on the morning of December 7, 1941. He had been on deck duty on board the U.S.S. Sacramento at Pearl Harbor until 4 a.m., then grabbed coffee with a buddy and hadn’t gone to bed until 5:30 a.m. So, when alarms s... |
ff85eed811051c94db3d8bbefa112d00 | https://www.history.com/news/pedal-your-way-through-the-bicycles-bumpy-history | Pedal Your Way Through the Bicycle’s Bumpy History | Pedal Your Way Through the Bicycle’s Bumpy History
The bicycle as we know it evolved in the 19th century thanks to the work of several different inventors. A German baron named Karl von Drais made the first major development when he created a steerable, two-wheeled contraption in 1817. This clunky wooden prototype didn... |
6d4db1e6169060605bed11ec86d73cbd | https://www.history.com/news/pendant-discovered-in-ruins-of-nazi-death-camp-may-have-link-to-anne-frank | Pendant Discovered in Ruins of Nazi Death Camp May Have Link to Anne Frank | Pendant Discovered in Ruins of Nazi Death Camp May Have Link to Anne Frank
Last fall, archaeologists excavating the Sobibor ruins uncovered the remains of a building where they believe prisoners undressed and had their heads shaved before being forced down the path to the gas chamber, the sadistically named Himmelfahrt... |
191d127516f97bd53c17e41b30284c64 | https://www.history.com/news/pentagon-design-september-11-attacks | How the Pentagon's Design Saved Lives on September 11 | How the Pentagon's Design Saved Lives on September 11
At 9:37 a.m. on September 11, 2001, a 62-year-old Pentagon employee and retired Air Force communications specialist was sitting in traffic west of the Pentagon when a roaring jet engine passed so low overhead that it clipped the radio antenna of the car behind him.
... |
467f9e2b259b4f922e32a9abc299ce36 | https://www.history.com/news/pentagon-papers-fully-declassified-on-famous-leaks-40th-anniversary | Pentagon Papers Fully Declassified on Famous Leak’s 40th Anniversary | Pentagon Papers Fully Declassified on Famous Leak’s 40th Anniversary
Forty years ago today, the most famous leak in American history came to light when The New York Times began publishing sections of the so-called Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Department of Defense report on America’s involvement in Vietnam from 1945 t... |
f16f31a4852f3a1c68793ad68499dcef | https://www.history.com/news/pickles-history-timeline | The Juicy 4,000-Year History of Pickles | The Juicy 4,000-Year History of Pickles
Cleopatra swore by them. So did Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte. Pickles got their start more than 4,000 years ago, when ancient Mesopotamians began soaking cucumbers in acidic brine, as a way to preserve them. Since then, they have been a staple in cultures around the globe... |
75fe1f5a7c21a53c7c9b49273bf1fe59 | https://www.history.com/news/pigeon-cameras-and-other-cia-cold-war-spy-gear | Pigeon Cameras and Other CIA Cold War Spy Gear | Pigeon Cameras and Other CIA Cold War Spy Gear
When James Bond needed nifty espionage gadgets, like a Rolex-turned-circular-saw or a peel-off fake fingerprint, he could count on the Q branch of the British Secret Service. When American operatives need to snap photos on the down-low or transmit a secret code, they have ... |
ebe7733b5c5c72c7a4a37feb735eec0b | https://www.history.com/news/ping-pong-diplomacy | How Ping-Pong Diplomacy Thawed the Cold War | How Ping-Pong Diplomacy Thawed the Cold War
In the years since Mao Zedong’s communist revolution in 1949, relations between the People’s Republic of China and the United States had been clouded by Cold War propaganda, trade embargos and diplomatic silence. The two superpowers had met on the battlefield during the Korea... |
3991ef25da37ebdac56145189baf316c | https://www.history.com/news/pink-triangle-nazi-concentration-camps | What Is the Meaning of the Pink Triangle? From Nazi Label to Gay Pride Symbol | What Is the Meaning of the Pink Triangle? From Nazi Label to Gay Pride Symbol
Before the pink triangle became a worldwide symbol of gay power and pride, it was intended as a badge of shame. In Nazi Germany, a downward-pointing pink triangle was sewn onto the shirts of gay men in concentration camps—to identify and furt... |
fe40172a9b9cf8ca5a52381e56a3b730 | https://www.history.com/news/pinochet-terror-attack-dc | How Pinochet Got Away With a Brazen Murder in D.C. | How Pinochet Got Away With a Brazen Murder in D.C.
One September morning in 1976, a bomb blew up a car as it was driving up Embassy Row in Washington, D.C. When police arrived at the scene, they found a human foot in the road, and a man lying on the pavement who was missing half his legs. Minutes later, he was dead.
Th... |
56f4220195079bf32d9ecfa918c4fd52 | https://www.history.com/news/pizza-origins-discovery-new-york-filippo-milone-lombardis | Meet a Long-Lost Father of New York City Pizza | Meet a Long-Lost Father of New York City Pizza
How did pizza, a saucy dish originating in a southwestern region of Italy, become so dominant in the United States? Legend has long recognized Gennaro Lombardi as the founder of the country’s first pizzeria. He supposedly received his business license for it in 1905, in Lo... |
334a54ef895204de5eb91c808f772309 | https://www.history.com/news/plague-italy-public-health-ferrara | As the Plague Ravaged Italy, This City Kept It at Bay | As the Plague Ravaged Italy, This City Kept It at Bay
The plague ravaged large cities and provincial towns in northern and central Italy from 1629 to 1631, killing more than 45,000 people in Venice alone and wiping out more than half the population of cities like Parma and Verona. But strikingly, some communities were ... |
c1f0ccfcebf3b2808f56774bb7861a0b | https://www.history.com/news/plague-pandemic-great-fire | When London Faced a Pandemic—And a Devastating Fire | When London Faced a Pandemic—And a Devastating Fire
In 1665 and 1666, one city experienced two enormous tragedies: the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London. The plague killed roughly 15 to 20 percent of the city’s population, while the fire burned about a quarter of London’s metropolis, making around 100... |
dda2281a100cec22051f2e2062334273 | https://www.history.com/news/poland-holocaust-law-death-camps | Why Poland Punishes Those Who Accuse It of the Holocaust | Why Poland Punishes Those Who Accuse It of the Holocaust
Auschwitz. Treblinka. The Warsaw Ghetto. During World War II, Poland became the epicenter of the Nazis’ crimes—but soon, implying that those crimes were committed by the Polish state will itself be a crime. A controversial new law in Poland makes it illegal to ac... |
4af87d15cdf1aa6d4f07571d480f9da1 | https://www.history.com/news/police-riot-1857-mayor-corruption | In 1857, NYC Police Didn’t Keep the Peace—They Caused a Riot | In 1857, NYC Police Didn’t Keep the Peace—They Caused a Riot
In 1857, two rival police forces were operating at the same time in one major U.S. city—it did not end well. The unusual situation in New York City was the outcome of a corrupt mayor and opposing political parties heading the state and city governments and wo... |
2f7a857ccb0e201700b1a30a713e9bd7 | https://www.history.com/news/political-conventions-change | How Political Conventions Began—And Changed | How Political Conventions Began—And Changed
George Washington didn’t have a nominating convention. As the commander of the colonial forces in the American Revolution, he was an easy candidate to select from among the eligible pool of any white man 35 and older, and he won his first two elections without any real compet... |
a4ed3e05d9990f21c980d8917cfeb5f0 | https://www.history.com/news/pompeii-shrine-discovery | Volcanic Ash at Pompeii Froze This Beautiful, 2,000-Year-Old Shrine in Time | Volcanic Ash at Pompeii Froze This Beautiful, 2,000-Year-Old Shrine in Time
Archaeologists have discovered an elaborate, perfectly preserved shrine in the wall of a house in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city on Italy’s western coast that was destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago by the deadly eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
As ma... |
ff0814de6216a450498001388b09c460 | https://www.history.com/news/port-chicago-disaster-stuns-the-nation-70-years-ago | Port Chicago Disaster Stuns the Nation, 70 Years Ago | Port Chicago Disaster Stuns the Nation, 70 Years Ago
The Naval magazine at Port Chicago—a sleepy town some 30 miles north of San Francisco—was first constructed in 1942, after a base at nearby Mare Island was unable to keep up with the demand for munitions for the war effort. From the port’s main pier, sailors toiled d... |
591315b8de46d0eed71466ef904409f0 | https://www.history.com/news/post-world-war-ii-boom-economy | The Post World War II Boom: How America Got Into Gear | The Post World War II Boom: How America Got Into Gear
In the summer of 1945, as World War II drew to a close, the U.S. economy was poised on the edge of an uncertain future.
Since President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s call in late 1940 for the United States to serve as the “arsenal of democracy,” American industry had step... |
e3f9f88374442f4ace76a3711e50f03e | https://www.history.com/news/pregnancy-workplace-employers-federal-government | How U.S. Employers Have Handled Pregnancy in the Workplace | How U.S. Employers Have Handled Pregnancy in the Workplace
As the only industrialized nation in the world with no federal policy mandating paid maternity leave, the United States has a long and complicated history of how employers have handled pregnancy in the workplace.
From mandating reduced hours for pregnant employ... |
d8bf19a708934dbabb15328197259a29 | https://www.history.com/news/prehistoric-ages-timeline | The Prehistoric Ages in Order: How Humans Lived Before Written Records | The Prehistoric Ages in Order: How Humans Lived Before Written Records
Earth’s beginnings can be traced back 4.5 billion years, but human evolution only counts for a tiny speck of its history. The Prehistoric Period—or when there was human life before records documented human activity—roughly dates from 2.5 million yea... |
6df53c1cb3107c3ac7b4615f1d1f1b64 | https://www.history.com/news/prehistoric-beaches-hold-key-to-understanding-climate-change | Prehistoric Beaches Hold Key to Understanding Climate Change | Prehistoric Beaches Hold Key to Understanding Climate Change
As reported in the New York Times this week, a team of scientists headed by Dr. Maureen E. Raymo of Columbia University traveled to the southern and western coasts of South Africa last summer to find prehistoric beaches that could contain invaluable records o... |
7c6bc49afda30b4301fc3eb1e9e48a0b | https://www.history.com/news/prehistoric-crocodile-like-species-discovered-in-texas | Prehistoric Crocodile-Like Species Discovered in Texas | Prehistoric Crocodile-Like Species Discovered in Texas
More than 200 million years ago, west Texas was a swampy, tropical rainforest with tall conifers, lush ferns and bountiful lakes. Today the region is dry and scrubby, but the dusty soil of the windswept plains still possesses evidence of the prehistoric creatures t... |
dcc0e50c6b8c7142f50cdeb1931df80a | https://www.history.com/news/prehistoric-human-diet-scavengers-vs-hunters | Early Humans May Have Scavenged More than They Hunted | Early Humans May Have Scavenged More than They Hunted
Popular culture often shows cavemen as aggressive, club-wielding hunters. But what if most early humans were actually scavengers? The notion, first proposed by scholars in the second half of the 20th century, has since challenged the dated presumption that prehistor... |
2c46c975592228af2eddfb17da28b1f8 | https://www.history.com/news/prehistoric-recordkeeping-system-used-long-after-writing-emerged | Prehistoric Recordkeeping System Used Long After Writing Emerged | Prehistoric Recordkeeping System Used Long After Writing Emerged
Ziyaret Tepe is located on the site of the ancient city of Tushan, a provincial capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. At its peak during the first millennia B.C., the empire was the most powerful state in the world, encompassing modern-day Turkey, Iraq and ... |
edb62c7a0a3fbde2347c109d092052a4 | https://www.history.com/news/president-james-polk-slavery-children | This President Secretly Purchased Enslaved Children While in Office | This President Secretly Purchased Enslaved Children While in Office
James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, is probably best known for growing the the size of the country by more than one-third. This territorial expansion pushed the U.S. border all the way to the West Coast, precipitating a heated natio... |
ff30aa7d3687c88c8a6c219ae1e7a3d6 | https://www.history.com/news/presidential-affairs-jfk-lbj-fdr-harding-clinton-trump | Historic Presidential Affairs That Never Made it To the Tabloids | Historic Presidential Affairs That Never Made it To the Tabloids
Reading about the president’s sex life is still a pretty new phenomenon. Americans first experienced it in the 1990s, when the cover-up of Bill Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky—and Clinton’s subsequent impeachment trial—became a hu... |
362486909f6504db177c864c3e0c1091 | https://www.history.com/news/presidential-elections-tie-electoral-college?cmpid=email-hist-inside-history-2020-1005-10052020&om_rid=667b6fff3dfdb1838ba2d17601cc9626bafe91c315e49c0ab0d4994399c34561 | What Happens If There’s a Tie in a US Presidential Election? | What Happens If There’s a Tie in a US Presidential Election?
When the Electoral votes were tallied in the 1800 U.S. presidential election—only the fourth election in the young nation’s history—there was a problem. Two candidates received exactly 73 electoral votes, producing the first and (so far) only Electoral Colleg... |
06b5d2c3c5596d58808801a7d65818d7 | https://www.history.com/news/presidential-inauguration-history-photos | Photos: Presidential Inaugurations Through History | Photos: Presidential Inaugurations Through History
The first presidential inauguration was held on April 30, 1789, in what was then the nation’s capital of New York City. On a second floor balcony of Federal Hall, George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States. With one hand on th... |
1afca1362e8f1186abf4ee8f26a4018a | https://www.history.com/news/presidential-medal-freedom-truman | The Presidential Medal of Freedom Began as a World War II Honor | The Presidential Medal of Freedom Began as a World War II Honor
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian honor in the United States. Originally, Harry S. Truman established the “Medal of Freedom” to honor people who’d demonstrated notable service during World War II. In 1963, John F. Kennedy reintroduc... |
a3362bb7334ab089536beb82aef4c6dd | https://www.history.com/news/presidential-records-watergate-law-official-documents | Watergate-Era Law Means Presidents Can't Just Rip Up and Toss Documents | Watergate-Era Law Means Presidents Can't Just Rip Up and Toss Documents
When it comes to the office of the president, all official documents belong to history. That’s due to the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which Congress passed to avert another Watergate.
Lately, staffers of President Donald Trump have struggled ... |
f80c8dcf5188cbb745ec5e38d05f0fb4 | https://www.history.com/news/presidential-tax-returns-facts | 6 Surprising Facts Found in Presidential Tax Returns Through History | 6 Surprising Facts Found in Presidential Tax Returns Through History
Some presidents took some significant tax cuts while others proved to be surprisingly generous with charitable givings. Here are six surprising things we’ve learned about past presidents from their taxes.
FDR didn’t release his tax returns, but his pr... |
c2a73430aa99268bfd1fb23f26ae8441 | https://www.history.com/news/presidents-electoral-college-popular-vote | 5 Presidents Who Lost the Popular Vote But Won the Election | 5 Presidents Who Lost the Popular Vote But Won the Election
Of the 58 presidential elections in the history of the United States, 53 of the winners took both the Electoral College and the popular vote. But in five incredibly close elections—including those for two of the past three presidents—the winner of the Electora... |
13424f011df9e6a4566cb0f11256e074 | https://www.history.com/news/presidents-ill-25-amendment | What Happens When a President Becomes Ill or Incapacitated While in Office? | What Happens When a President Becomes Ill or Incapacitated While in Office?
Illness can impact a president’s ability to conduct the duties of office, but for most of U.S. history, protocol for what happens when a president got sick was minimal.
The Founding Fathers anticipated the need for a line of succession, and the... |
9d19009b3a9c4eb59a9ee107e221b2f8 | https://www.history.com/news/presidents-working-from-home-photos | Presidents Working From Home—in Photos | Presidents Working From Home—in Photos
One of the benefits of being a U.S. president is you get to work from home. Ever since John Adams moved into the White House in 1800, every subsequent president has gotten the chance to live in his official workplace in Washington, D.C.
Like many other Americans who work from home... |
d3ab841eb91aea93300af9fe4df9927b | https://www.history.com/news/princess-margaret-affair-roddy-llewellyn-divorce-antony-armstrong-jones-lord-snowdon | When Princess Margaret's Affair Hit the Tabloids—and Torpedoed Her Marriage | When Princess Margaret's Affair Hit the Tabloids—and Torpedoed Her Marriage
They drank. They swam. They smiled. But they didn’t hear the click of the cameras–or acknowledge that their secret romance could constitute a national scandal. They were Princess Margaret and Roddy Llewellyn, and they were about to grace the co... |
160c19c84d6d53c8331594e570b3f618 | https://www.history.com/news/printing-press-renaissance | 7 Ways the Printing Press Changed the World | 7 Ways the Printing Press Changed the World
Knowledge is power, as the saying goes, and the invention of the mechanical movable type printing press helped disseminate knowledge wider and faster than ever before.
German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg is credited with inventing the printing press around 1436, although he w... |
d03a8591d4d8aad1a7d9d23fe1fdecca | https://www.history.com/news/prohibition-organized-crime-al-capone | How the Prohibition Era Spurred Organized Crime | How the Prohibition Era Spurred Organized Crime
The term “organized crime” didn’t really exist in the United States before Prohibition. Criminal gangs had run amok in American cities since the late 19th-century, but they were mostly bands of street thugs running small-time extortion and loansharking rackets in predomin... |
5f9da249820ac0f0e1e6f548e381c80e | https://www.history.com/news/project-blue-book-set-production-design | How 'Project Blue Book' Production Designers Evoked the Golden Age of UFOs | How 'Project Blue Book' Production Designers Evoked the Golden Age of UFOs
To transport “Project Blue Book” viewers into the top-secret world of the U.S. government’s Cold War-era U.F.O. investigations, production designer Ross Dempster and his team were tasked with conjuring a moment in time—from scratch. The drama se... |
a198e7913379ff64fbb9f046a3a71f10 | https://www.history.com/news/project-iceworm-cold-war-nuclear-weapons-greenland | When the Pentagon Dug Secret Cold War Ice Tunnels to Hide Nukes | When the Pentagon Dug Secret Cold War Ice Tunnels to Hide Nukes
On a clear, cold day in May 1959, two U.S. Army officers clad in polar gear gazed through their aviator sunglasses at the endless white horizon before them. Standing heroically in front of Arctic personnel carriers, Col. John Kerkering and Capt. Thomas Eva... |
5ef0daecc2b4278c3a99f9eb0cc05ba9 | https://www.history.com/news/puerto-ricos-complicated-history-with-the-united-states | Puerto Rico’s Complicated History with the United States | Puerto Rico’s Complicated History with the United States
In February 1898, Puerto Ricans had a lot to celebrate. After centuries of Spanish colonial rule, they had just become an independent part of Spain, complete with a Constitution and voting rights. But within only a few years, the U.S. would throw all that asunder... |
0a8825781b430920497899a0e913b5fa | https://www.history.com/news/quarantine-black-death-medieval | The Term 'Quarantine' Comes From Medieval Efforts to Fight the Black Death | The Term 'Quarantine' Comes From Medieval Efforts to Fight the Black Death
Almost 700 years ago, the overwhelmed physicians and health officials fighting a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague in medieval Italy had no notion of viruses or bacteria, but they understood enough about the Black Death to implement some of... |
6f109bed4c2ed5bc571fd2fa4a6456a1 | https://www.history.com/news/queen-elizabeth-evacuation-plan-cold-war-brexit | Queen Elizabeth's Nuclear War Escape Plan Has Been Updated for Brexit Backlash | Queen Elizabeth's Nuclear War Escape Plan Has Been Updated for Brexit Backlash
God save the queen—from nuclear war? That’s right. After the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of annihilation, officials in the United Kingdom came up with a plan to save Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke o... |
ad279f32ffe8ee9008f827fd2437b574 | https://www.history.com/news/queen-elizabeth-spy-network-england | The Ruthless 16th-Century Spy Network That Kept Queen Elizabeth Safe | The Ruthless 16th-Century Spy Network That Kept Queen Elizabeth Safe
In late 16th-century England, Queen Elizabeth was a Protestant royal who faced perpetual threats to her life and reign. Real enemies and exaggerated fears led to paranoia—and the royal court responded with a secret war.
In what would become England’s ... |
a38702f396ff5a2cdb5a4501f0f1a9b0 | https://www.history.com/news/queen-mary-i-bloody-mary-reformation | Why Is Queen Mary I Called ‘Bloody Mary’? | Why Is Queen Mary I Called ‘Bloody Mary’?
She was the first-ever Queen of England to rule in her own right, but to her critics, Mary I of England has long been known only as “Bloody Mary.”
This unfortunate nickname was thanks to her persecution of Protestant heretics, whom she burned at the stake in the hundreds. But i... |
6bb0f591890a7dcffa46fe25dc242c3a | https://www.history.com/news/queen-victoria-grandchildren-matchmaking-wwi | How Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking Helped Cause World War I | How Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking Helped Cause World War I
If you were a royal in the late part of the 19th century, there’s a good chance you were related to Queen Victoria—and if Victoria was your grandmother, you were pretty much guaranteed a glamorous royal wedding to a prince or princess of her choosing.
“Victoria’... |
74aaa51b23072b5eff443a43b99f737a | https://www.history.com/news/queen-victorias-scones | Queen Victoria’s Scones | Queen Victoria’s Scones
The British ritual of afternoon tea originated when the Duchess of Bedford decided, sometime in the early 1840s, that she was tired of feeling peckish in the middle of the afternoon. A little snack would be just the thing, she thought. Within a generation, the practice of taking a light meal wit... |
dbe392cfda3eda7ae6bf5c2eab92f5a8 | https://www.history.com/news/rabbit-rabbit-feet-good-luck-explained | Why Are Rabbits—And Rabbits' Feet—Considered Good Luck Symbols? | Why Are Rabbits—And Rabbits' Feet—Considered Good Luck Symbols?
If you go on Twitter during the first of the month, you may notice “rabbit rabbit” trending. That’s because of a superstition that if your first words that day are “rabbit rabbit,” you’ll have luck for the rest of the month.
Alleged followers of this tradi... |
8e72a9055568f6c6ace2e7df6aa49c71 | https://www.history.com/news/rabbits-unearth-ancient-treasures-at-english-landmark | Rabbits Unearth Ancient Treasures at English Landmark | Rabbits Unearth Ancient Treasures at English Landmark
Every year, hordes of tourists journey to Land’s End, the westernmost point of Great Britain where the azure waters of the Celtic Sea lash the weathered rocks strewn at the base of Cornwall’s imposing cliffs. Visitors to one of England’s iconic landmarks soak in spe... |
a6bbbe6e65d16672eae75d9686c4d977 | https://www.history.com/news/race-records-bessie-smith-big-bill-broonzy-music-business | How 'Race Records' Turned Black Music Into Big Business | How 'Race Records' Turned Black Music Into Big Business
In 1926, a self-taught musician named Big Bill Broonzy found his way to Chicago. A sharecropper turned soldier, he had left Mississippi and headed north to escape the pervasive racism of the Jim Crow South along with thousands of others of African-Americans in the... |
a62b796e6fbd1bde1c62560b4d016d3f | https://www.history.com/news/rare-noahs-ark-mosaic-discovered-at-ancient-israeli-synagogue | Rare Noah’s Ark Mosaic Discovered at Ancient Israeli Synagogue | Rare Noah’s Ark Mosaic Discovered at Ancient Israeli Synagogue
One of the mosaic panels shows the biblical tale of Noah’s Ark (from the book of Genesis, chapters 6-9) with pairs of lions, leopards, snakes, bears, elephants, ostriches, goats, sheep and other animals shown alongside the ark itself. The other vividly depi... |
6f45f706707642066e1e3af3ba3113ef | https://www.history.com/news/rare-wine-from-george-washingtons-presidency-found-behind-wall-in-new-jersey | Rare Wine from George Washington’s Presidency Found Behind Wall in New Jersey | Rare Wine from George Washington’s Presidency Found Behind Wall in New Jersey
It’s said that a fine wine only gets better with time. But the recent discovery of wine bottled at the time George Washington was still president really puts that theory to the test.
Preservationists at the Liberty Hall Museum in Union, New J... |
7fed430613ac0dfb970eff6f594af2ad | https://www.history.com/news/read-the-document-that-condemned-a-woman-to-death-in-the-salem-witch-trials | Read the Document That Condemned a Woman to Death in the Salem Witch Trials | Read the Document That Condemned a Woman to Death in the Salem Witch Trials
“I was taken very ill again all over & felt a great pricking in ye soles of my feet, and after a while I saw apparently the shape of Margret Scott, who, as I was sitting in a chair by ye fire pulled me with ye chair, down backward to ye ground,... |
d016701090a3f7082312d6d4b8eee65d | https://www.history.com/news/reagan-health-25th-amendment | Reagan Aides Once Raised the Possibility of Invoking the 25th Amendment | Reagan Aides Once Raised the Possibility of Invoking the 25th Amendment
The president was acting strangely. In the wake of a scandal about his illegal dealings with foreign powers, White House aides felt he was so “inattentive and inept” that a memo sent to the chief of staff raised the prospect of invoking the 25th Am... |
9dba6134073664c0c8a1fc322bbee90a | https://www.history.com/news/reagan-star-wars-sdi-missile-defense | Reagan's 'Star Wars' Defense Program Promised to Block Nukes From Space | Reagan's 'Star Wars' Defense Program Promised to Block Nukes From Space
It was a plan that read like science fiction: A system armed with an array of space-based X-ray lasers would detect and deflect any nukes headed toward the United States.
President Ronald Reagan saw the proposed Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) a... |
3f827e96b39e7c3afc580243809ea8e6 | https://www.history.com/news/reasons-berlin-wall-fall | The Surprising Human Factors Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall | The Surprising Human Factors Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Great events do not always have great causes. One of history’s biggest surprises is how sometimes a series of small, seemingly insignificant events can suddenly add up to momentous change.
That’s how it happened with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the point-... |
541ea82becc0e4d4d9a06c26fb623072 | https://www.history.com/news/recycling-history-america | When Did Americans Start Recycling? | When Did Americans Start Recycling?
In the 1800s, there were no blue recycling bins, no sorting, no recycling trucks rumbling down the alley. Recycling as we know it didn’t exist. But people were way better at it.
“People recycled far more than we do now,” says Susan Strasser, author of Waste and Want: A Social History... |
63e6109beaefc6b4218774ad17b4426d | https://www.history.com/news/red-summer-1919-riots-chicago-dc-great-migration | Red Summer of 1919: How Black WWI Vets Fought Back Against Racist Mobs | Red Summer of 1919: How Black WWI Vets Fought Back Against Racist Mobs
The ink had barely dried on the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, when recently returned black veterans grabbed their guns and stationed themselves on rooftops in black neighborhoods in Washington D.C., prepared to act as snipe... |
b96146cdfc7a24d42853c7cc2370a4cb | https://www.history.com/news/relics-of-ancient-skull-cult-uncovered-in-turkey | Relics of Ancient ‘Skull Cult’ Uncovered in Turkey | Relics of Ancient ‘Skull Cult’ Uncovered in Turkey
It’s been called the world’s first temple—dozens of massive carved stone pillars, assembled in rings atop a manmade hill more than 11,000 years ago and decorated with intricate reliefs of gazelles, lions, snakes, crocodiles and other animals. Now, researchers working a... |
1d3a706d67b1fb23a0ee81e587179d43 | https://www.history.com/news/remembering-albert-szent-gyorgyi | Remembering Albert Szent-Györgyi | Remembering Albert Szent-Györgyi
Born in Budapest in 1893 into a noble Austro-Hungarian family, Albert Szent-Györgyi interrupted his university studies to serve as an army medic during World War I. Disillusioned with the war and eager to return to academia, he shot himself in the arm, claimed he had been wounded in bat... |
04bb08dce24fd449834b2d4e62fa7c3e | https://www.history.com/news/remembering-black-sunday | What Happened on Black Sunday? | What Happened on Black Sunday?
When wheat prices rose during World War I, homesteaders descended on the southern Great Plains and began plowing up the native grasses that had historically held the soil in place. Spurred on by land speculators, who outrageously claimed that “rain follows the plow” and that dust could be... |
a7ecf88f77f1de1b73712cf77176cb85 | https://www.history.com/news/remembering-julian-bond-1940-2015 | Remembering Julian Bond, 1940-2015 | Remembering Julian Bond, 1940-2015
Born Horace Julian Bond in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1940, he moved to Pennsylvania with his family at the age of 5, when his father, Horace Bond, became the first African-American president of Lincoln University. When Julian was 17, the family returned to the South, where Horace worke... |
394c41b768829565aa9ebac0cf75e602 | https://www.history.com/news/remembering-nelson-mandela | Remembering Nelson Mandela | Remembering Nelson Mandela
He was born Rolihlahla Mandela on July 18, 1918, into a royal family of the Xhosa-speaking Thembu tribe in the South African village of Mvezo. (In South Africa, Mandela is often called by his clan name, Madiba.) His father, who was Mvezo’s chief, died when he was nine, and the young Mandela w... |
489773ebb4426adc111d41668ecc86c8 | https://www.history.com/news/remembering-new-englands-dark-day | Remembering New England’s “Dark Day” | Remembering New England’s “Dark Day”
For several days before May 19, people had noticed unusual activity in the skies over New England. The region had only recently emerged from one of the most bitterly cold winters on record, and while the air was now warmer, it was also thick and heavy. The sun had taken on a reddish... |
436bce764a3c6b7d4cf52703e805e06a | https://www.history.com/news/remembering-the-1912-presidential-election | Remembering the 1912 Presidential Election | Remembering the 1912 Presidential Election
At first, Theodore Roosevelt, who was commander-in-chief from 1901 to 1909, seemed an unlikely candidate for the 1912 presidential election. After backing his close friend William Howard Taft to serve as his successor, he disappeared on an extended hunting trip to Africa. But ... |
5c68feb287df73f613d2ef2e1ac26032 | https://www.history.com/news/remembering-the-1993-world-trade-center-bombing | Remembering the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing | Remembering the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing
Completed in 1973, the World Trade Center’s twin towers loomed over lower Manhattan at 110 stories each. Although these iconic buildings, which were the tallest in the world before being overtaken by Chicago’s Sears Tower, struggled at first to attract tenants, some 50,00... |
fe55cb68e423d7cf85bb5fc03c92d658 | https://www.history.com/news/remembering-the-apollo-1-tragedy | Remembering the Apollo 1 Tragedy | Remembering the Apollo 1 Tragedy
By the winter of 1967, President John F. Kennedy’s goal of “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth” by the end of the decade appeared to be in doubt. A three-month delay in the delivery of a newly designed spacecraft had pushed back the Apollo program’s first manned... |
5ab180c82255283a7c8f340e93e44b37 | https://www.history.com/news/remembering-the-apollo-8-christmas-eve-broadcast | Remembering the Apollo 8 Christmas Eve Broadcast | Remembering the Apollo 8 Christmas Eve Broadcast
On December 21, 1968, Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, blasted off from present-day Cape Canaveral in Florida. The plan called for the three astronauts onboard to come within about 70 miles of the moon, circle it several times and return safely home, all w... |
975781ae71cc11dd5d52eb23f915366c | https://www.history.com/news/remembering-the-battle-of-new-bern-on-its-150th-anniversary | Remembering the Battle of New Bern on Its 150th Anniversary | Remembering the Battle of New Bern on Its 150th Anniversary
What was the significance of the Battle of New Bern?Hari Jones: The capture of New Bern was the next big step after Roanoke Island was captured, which is what I would consider the turning point in the Union’s attempt to control the North Carolina coast. The Ne... |
68580546a9abb849a4258196ddb791de | https://www.history.com/news/remembering-the-battle-of-okinawa-wwii | Remembering the Battle of Okinawa | Remembering the Battle of Okinawa
In the spring of 1945, U.S. troops in the Pacific were nearing the final stages of their “island-hopping” campaign, a strategy designed to capture smaller islands in the Pacific and set up military bases in preparation for an invasion of Japan. Though the campaign was proving successfu... |
7e6e97db253c4d842108eed4557339cb | https://www.history.com/news/remembering-the-great-escape-70-years-ago | Remembering “The Great Escape,” 70 Years Ago | Remembering “The Great Escape,” 70 Years Ago
Around 10:30 pm. on the cold, moonless night of March 24, 1944, Johnny Bull slowly peeked his head out of the ground and filled his lungs with freedom as he breathed in the frigid air. The sweat-soaked prisoner of war had just poked away at the last nine inches of grass and ... |
2cd7c3d8ad0db34ed318558871264dde | https://www.history.com/news/remembering-the-only-civilian-to-die-at-gettysburg | Remembering the Only Civilian to Die at Gettysburg | Remembering the Only Civilian to Die at Gettysburg
Born on May 21, 1843, in the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Mary Virginia Wade was called “Gin” or “Ginnie” as a child. But due to an apparent newspaper inaccuracy, she has become known to history as “Jennie.” Her father, a tailor, had frequent brushes with the law ... |
837fb2fe1cca349fbd846b3a84427036 | https://www.history.com/news/remembering-the-wounded-knee-massacre | Remembering the Wounded Knee Massacre | Remembering the Wounded Knee Massacre
For the entirety of his 27 years, Black Elk’s somber eyes had watched as the way of life for his fellow Lakota Sioux withered on the Great Plains. The medicine man had witnessed a generation of broken treaties and shattered dreams. He had watched as the white men “came in like a ri... |
f1281ca3c13796edfd0ada18654d18af | https://www.history.com/news/renovations-begin-on-jesus-tomb-in-jerusalem | Renovations Begin on Jesus’ Tomb in Jerusalem | Renovations Begin on Jesus’ Tomb in Jerusalem
In 325 A.D., Emperor Constantine the Great, considered the first Christian emperor of Rome, built a basilica on what was believed to be the site of Jesus’ crucifixion (known as Calvary in Latin and Golgotha in Greek) and his burial. After the Muslim Caliph Al-Hakim had the ... |
30e023bbad9d9537ca80ab76d3dd508a | https://www.history.com/news/reparations-slavery-native-americans-japanese-internment | The Thorny History of Reparations in the United States | The Thorny History of Reparations in the United States
The papers were handed out one by one to the elderly recipients—most frail, some in wheelchairs. To some, it may have looked like a run-of-the-mill governmental ceremony with the usual federal fanfare. But to Norman Mineta, a California congressman and future Secre... |
f683dde531f4ac6e63ea16ab12a213b4 | https://www.history.com/news/researchers-explore-the-seafaring-culture-of-the-maya | Researchers Explore the Seafaring Culture of the Maya | Researchers Explore the Seafaring Culture of the Maya
This month, researchers from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are combing the eastern Mexican coast for remnants of the Maya civilization, which once boasted a rich and sophisticated seafaring tradition. The current expedition focuses ... |
37e5ba89786e7b673201faaf9b27bce5 | https://www.history.com/news/researchers-identify-fragment-of-amelia-earharts-plane | Researchers Identify Fragment of Amelia Earhart’s Plane | Researchers Identify Fragment of Amelia Earhart’s Plane
After departing from Miami on June 1, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, completed nearly 22,000 miles of their attempted circumnavigation of the globe, making stops in South America, Africa, India and Lae, New Guinea. On July 2, they took off fr... |
b329f53eed1ba494d6562ab663e67179 | https://www.history.com/news/researchers-may-be-closer-to-solving-ancient-inca-mystery | Researchers May Be Closer to Solving Ancient Inca Mystery | Researchers May Be Closer to Solving Ancient Inca Mystery
The ancient Inca device known as the khipu consists of a series of knotted cotton or wool strings hung from a main cord, typically made from llama or alpaca hair. According to the Khipu Database Project, the word “khipu” comes from the Quechuan word for knot, an... |
eb2dd9414edff0c82993b47e26c3db86 | https://www.history.com/news/researchers-may-have-found-the-long-lost-eight-natural-wonder-of-the-world | Researchers May Have Found the Long-Lost Eighth Natural Wonder of the World | Researchers May Have Found the Long-Lost Eighth Natural Wonder of the World
Located on the shores of Lake Rotomohana, the Pink and White Terraces were formed over many hundreds of years from silica deposits left by the flowing waters of two hot springs. Beginning in the 1830s, these natural wonders—known respectively a... |
25d248c5b9737d3a9e3c0e539da8e777 | https://www.history.com/news/researchers-say-king-tuts-dagger-was-made-from-a-meteorite | Researchers Say King Tut’s Dagger Was Made From a Meteorite | Researchers Say King Tut’s Dagger Was Made From a Meteorite
In 1925, three years after discovering Tutankhamen’s largely intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor (ancient Thebes), the English archaeologist Howard Carter found two daggers hidden in the folds of material wrapped around the pharaoh’s mummified bo... |
ebcbbecbaae2ea5baa3a9ed4ab03062c | https://www.history.com/news/researchers-unlock-key-to-reading-damaged-scrolls-from-pompeii-disaster | Researchers Unlock Key to Reading Damaged Scrolls From Pompeii Disaster | Researchers Unlock Key to Reading Damaged Scrolls From Pompeii Disaster
On August 24, A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted near present-day Naples, Italy, infamously eviscerating the Roman city of Pompeii. Nearby Herculaneum, a smaller, coastal city of perhaps 5,000, which was closer to the volcano’s principal vent, took ev... |
ef19f0c40e71042ad0a2c74570c18f5b | https://www.history.com/news/rhubarb-a-love-affair | Rhubarb: A Love Affair | Rhubarb: A Love Affair
The coronation of a new queen always unleashes a tidal wave of commemorative memorabilia, and Queen Victoria’s crowning in 1837 was no exception. But amid all of the cheap mementos and tacky tchotchkes was a true standout—a startling new variety of rhubarb that was like nothing anyone had ever se... |
ef2b3c77a7b616d43480d316cf603192 | https://www.history.com/news/richard-nixon-endangered-species-act-esa-environment | How Nixon Became the Unlikely Champion of the Endangered Species Act | How Nixon Became the Unlikely Champion of the Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act was created by a somewhat unlikely hero: President Richard M. Nixon. Although Nixon expressed personal disgust with environmentalists in private, he also recognized that Americans’ interest in the environment was not a passi... |
b318eaf2fbda3a3b94262e911262270f | https://www.history.com/news/richard-nixon-honor-america-day-july-4-1970 | Nixon's July 4 Bash Ended With Tear Gas and Nude Protesters | Nixon's July 4 Bash Ended With Tear Gas and Nude Protesters
President Richard Nixon had a PR problem. He had just deepened U.S. involvement in the extremely unpopular Vietnam War by invading Cambodia. In May, Ohio National Guard troops had killed four student protesters at Kent State. So, to drum up support for the war... |
a66b6acc4d4b43d1c5bc7cc24a192dc5 | https://www.history.com/news/richard-nixon-kent-state-shootings-response | How President Nixon Responded to the Kent State Shootings | How President Nixon Responded to the Kent State Shootings
Richard Nixon couldn’t sleep. Four days after the Kent State shootings, the president sat in the sitting room off the Lincoln Bedroom listening to a Rachmaninoff concerto on his record player.
With dawn still two hours away, Nixon gazed into the darkness where p... |
957e6405ef7b5647b7d1f5a287241565 | https://www.history.com/news/richard-nixon-laugh-in-cameo-1968 | Did Nixon’s ‘Laugh-In’ Cameo Help Him Win the 1968 Election? | Did Nixon’s ‘Laugh-In’ Cameo Help Him Win the 1968 Election?
Whatever else he may have been, Richard M. Nixon wasn’t generally known as a comedian. So many American TV viewers were surprised 50 years ago to see the Republican presidential nominee pop up on the hit comedy show “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.”
The date was S... |
211f6080623a41a3172196fc1f758311 | https://www.history.com/news/richard-the-lionhearts-mummified-heart-gets-a-forensic-workup | Richard the Lionheart’s Mummified Heart Gets a Forensic Workup | Richard the Lionheart’s Mummified Heart Gets a Forensic Workup
Everyone wanted a piece of Richard I after his death in 1199 at age 41. Nicknamed the Lionheart for his battlefield bravery and military shrewdness during the Third Crusade, the medieval king met his end while inspecting a French castle he’d besieged. A cro... |
d9d4449512931263dd7eaf9b040411ff | https://www.history.com/news/right-stuff-wrong-gender-the-woman-astronauts-grounded-by-nasa | Right Stuff, Wrong Gender: The Woman Astronauts Grounded by NASA | Right Stuff, Wrong Gender: The Woman Astronauts Grounded by NASA
In the early 1960s, 13 trailblazing American women participated in a secret program to become America’s first female astronaut. Although the skilled pilots passed the same physiological screening tests given to the Mercury Seven astronauts, NASA abruptly ... |
fa625b5f83360e3353b29813f95337a8 | https://www.history.com/news/right-stuff-wrong-gender-the-woman-astronauts-grounded-by-nasa-2 | The Mercury 13: Meet the Woman Astronauts Grounded by NASA | The Mercury 13: Meet the Woman Astronauts Grounded by NASA
In the early 1960s, 13 trailblazing American women participated in a secret program to become America’s first female astronaut. Although the skilled pilots passed the same physiological screening tests given to the Mercury Seven astronauts, NASA abruptly shutte... |
3a3b1c9328a26ce52351621c53b88dfc | https://www.history.com/news/roaring-twenties-scams-ponzi-wall-street?fbclid=IwAR2d1kAch3HdUCyFeOr3pHbYZ0vfJq6NH6iKN5qRWlX_PZC_M5lhmdN0Ydc | Get-Rich Scams of the Roaring Twenties | Get-Rich Scams of the Roaring Twenties
The economy boomed during the Roaring Twenties and rising incomes gave ordinary Americans access to enticing new conveniences, including washing machines, refrigerators, cars and other luxuries that would have once seemed unattainable.
But for many, that wasn’t enough.
With newly-... |
380a42a7544ba453b70199ed1ebd4119 | https://www.history.com/news/robert-f-kennedy-speech-martin-luther-king-assassination-1968 | I Was There For Robert Kennedy’s Electrifying Speech about MLK’s Murder | I Was There For Robert Kennedy’s Electrifying Speech about MLK’s Murder
Mary Evans was in the Indianapolis crowd the night Robert F. Kennedy gave a speech just after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in April 1968. Here she recounts the emotion of that night in a special story to go along with the latest install... |
2eec22f323a6a3abd80c9a2cbfeca99a | https://www.history.com/news/robert-hanssen-american-traitor | Robert Hanssen: American Traitor | Robert Hanssen: American Traitor
One of the most damaging double agents in modern American history, Robert Hanssen gave the Soviets, and later the Russians, thousands of pages of classified material that revealed such sensitive national security secrets as the identities of Soviets spying for the U.S., specifics about ... |
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