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b27199a49a21d42a47e6d26040145c74 | https://www.history.com/news/robert-kennedy-started-the-war-on-mafia-gangs | How Bobby Kennedy Started the War on Gangs | How Bobby Kennedy Started the War on Gangs
In his 2018 State of the Union speech, Donald Trump repeatedly referenced a specific gang, MS-13, by name. These mentions were intended to justify his administration’s anti-immigration policies. Though MS-13 originated among Salvadoran immigrant communities in L.A., most of it... |
259ea983b05cd8a638a2b0a1cb511d5d | https://www.history.com/news/roman-grave-men-legs-chopped-off | Ancient Grave Reveals Men's Legs Were Chopped Off at the Knee | Ancient Grave Reveals Men's Legs Were Chopped Off at the Knee
Archaeologists working at the site of a large roadworks project in Cambridgeshire, England recently stumbled on a grisly find—the bodies of two men whose legs had been chopped off at the knee, buried in a gravel pit being used as a garbage dump.
The remains ... |
6e2974d9ea2758c2c80393f1b22f6e29 | https://www.history.com/news/roman-ruins-in-britain-hailed-as-pompeii-of-the-north | Roman Ruins in Britain Hailed as “Pompeii of the North” | Roman Ruins in Britain Hailed as “Pompeii of the North”
Known as “Vinovia” to the Romans, the outpost once commanded the crossroads of the River Wear and Dere Street, an ancient road that linked the Roman headquarters at York with Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall near Edinburgh, Scotland. Researchers with the Binch... |
96ae50a6f4eb9686d56dabe3671be579 | https://www.history.com/news/romanov-family-tree-descendants-imposters-claims | The Romanov Family Tree: Real Descendants and Wannabes | The Romanov Family Tree: Real Descendants and Wannabes
On the night of July 16, 1918, a Bolshevik assassination squad executed Czar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and their five children, putting an end to the Romanov family dynasty that had ruled Russia for more than three centuries.
The murder of the Romanovs stam... |
d65f2d87175ea8b1476772c64d303c41 | https://www.history.com/news/rome-seven-sackings | Seven Times Rome Was Sacked | Seven Times Rome Was Sacked
Rome has been seized and occupied by enemies so many times that it is hard to come up with an exact number. After each sacking, however terrible, Rome rose again, phoenix-like. Evidence of these assaults can still be seen today.
The Gauls’ attack on Rome more than 24 centuries ago is still t... |
de80997470a1b7d72981b92e50f4183b | https://www.history.com/news/romes-colosseum-unveils-its-underworld | Rome’s Colosseum Unveils its Underworld | Rome’s Colosseum Unveils its Underworld
As gladiators battled lions and tigers on the bloodied sand floor of Rome’s Colosseum, the gory games’ next victims waited in the massive arena’s bowels. Now, for the first time ever, visitors to the decaying monument will have the chance to visit this labyrinth of underground de... |
f0d5b2aeaed5f1d295a6ee347371f460 | https://www.history.com/news/ronald-reagan-government-shutdown-reasons | Why Ronald Reagan Had a Record Eight Shutdowns | Why Ronald Reagan Had a Record Eight Shutdowns
Most government shutdowns happen over hot button issues where the Democratic and Republican parties strongly disagree—abortion in the 1970s, Medicaid and Medicare in the ‘90s; and Obamacare, DACA and a “border wall” in the 21s century. Similarly, the record eight shutdowns... |
7b88f118db3961dec2e9bc2a89db5e4a | https://www.history.com/news/ronald-reagan-tear-down-this-wall-speech-berlin-gorbachev | The Myth That Reagan Ended the Cold War With a Single Speech | The Myth That Reagan Ended the Cold War With a Single Speech
On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood just 100 yards away from the concrete barrier dividing East and West Berlin and uttered some of the most unforgettable words of his presidency: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
By the time Reagan traveled t... |
ed306fcf2b7de85ddcc4c7548496fbc2 | https://www.history.com/news/rosenbergs-executed-spies-cold-war | Why Were the Rosenbergs Executed? | Why Were the Rosenbergs Executed?
Few death-penalty executions can equal the controversy created by the electrocutions of spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in 1953. Accused of overseeing a spy network that stole American atomic secrets and handing those over to the Soviet Union, the couple were the only spies executed d... |
3fda6f14c06573a2bfa936c8e0b18ee4 | https://www.history.com/news/rosie-the-riveter-inspiration | Uncovering the Secret Identity of Rosie the Riveter | Uncovering the Secret Identity of Rosie the Riveter
In 1942, 20-year-old Naomi Parker was working in a machine shop at the Naval Air Station in Alameda, California, when a photographer snapped a shot of her on the job. In the photo, released through the Acme photo agency, she’s bent over an industrial machine, wearing ... |
94c64769512510b4ef13b9002f610960 | https://www.history.com/news/roster-from-ben-franklins-fire-department-found | Roster From Ben Franklin’s Fire Department Found | Roster From Ben Franklin’s Fire Department Found
Politician, printer, inventor, diplomat, author, scientist—Benjamin Franklin will forever be remembered as a man of many talents. But not everyone knows the founding father was also a volunteer firefighter who at age 30 established Philadelphia’s first fire department. T... |
8713067ff0386b55a8ed5dcc1a5b7572 | https://www.history.com/news/royal-announcement-leads-to-succession-scramble | Royal Announcement Leads to Succession Scramble | Royal Announcement Leads to Succession Scramble
According to longstanding rules of royal succession in Britain, a first-born princess may only inherit the throne if she has no younger brothers. As a result, some 40 kings have ruled Britain since the Norman Conquest in 1066, but only seven queens. Queen Elizabeth II, wh... |
e93046f2f05430b5d695182a731953e6 | https://www.history.com/news/royal-birth-traditions-marie-antoinette-meghan-markle | Meghan Markle is Lucky: Royal Births Were Once Terrifying, Deadly and Watched by Huge Crowds | Meghan Markle is Lucky: Royal Births Were Once Terrifying, Deadly and Watched by Huge Crowds
On November 1, 1661, Queen Marie-Therese, the shy, retiring Spanish wife of King Louis XIV of France, went into labor. As soon as the Queen’s contractions began, her quiet palace rooms, in which she had been ceremonially confin... |
6ce9484a7fccf8611cee77b6beae134a | https://www.history.com/news/royal-family-divorce-remarry-meghan-markle-wallis-simpson | Why the Royal Family Used to Forbid Marriage After Divorce | Why the Royal Family Used to Forbid Marriage After Divorce
When Prince Harry weds Meghan Markle, he won’t just be breaking the mold by marrying an American actress. Markle is also divorced—her two-year-long marriage to producer Trevor Engelson ended in 2013.
That’s a big deal: Marrying a divorced person was taboo among... |
d9dce14419313371b67163a044dda6a7 | https://www.history.com/news/royal-palace-life-hygiene-henry-viii | Naked Cooks, Excrement, Rats: The Secretly Disgusting History of Royal Palaces | Naked Cooks, Excrement, Rats: The Secretly Disgusting History of Royal Palaces
In July of 1535, King Henry VIII and his court of over 700 people embarked on an epic official tour. Over the next four months the massive entourage would visit around 30 different royal palaces, aristocratic residences and religious institu... |
e32d06a5cb0b89695f9780e46039a58f | https://www.history.com/news/rudolph-the-red-nosed-reindeer-creation | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Balsam wreaths and visions of sugarplums had barely faded in the first weeks of 1939, but thoughts inside the Chicago headquarters of retail giant Montgomery Ward had already turned to the next Christmas 11 months away. The retailer had traditionally purchased and distributed coloring boo... |
40aa43822ecb297d974991fbf60b3838 | https://www.history.com/news/runaway-medieval-nun | A 14th-Century Nun Faked Her Own Death to Escape Convent Life | A 14th-Century Nun Faked Her Own Death to Escape Convent Life
In the early 14th century, a nun named Joan of Leeds faked her own death with a “dummy” and a bogus burial. Scholars in the United Kingdom recently reexamined and translated a salty letter the Archbishop of York wrote about the escapade. Several centuries la... |
b4dce27f4366c80e434fbb9d61757682 | https://www.history.com/news/ruth-bader-ginsburg-death | Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice, Dies at Age 87 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice, Dies at Age 87
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a groundbreaking attorney, a lifelong advocate for gender equality, and a civil servant who served as a justice on the Supreme Court for 27 years, died September 18, 2020 due to complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer. She was 87 ye... |
1206c1bd46adaf6c7917c618d981d2fa | https://www.history.com/news/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-landmark-opinions-womens-rights-supreme-court | Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Landmark Opinions on Women's Rights | Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Landmark Opinions on Women's Rights
From her lively questions to her scathing legal writing to her black velvet “dissent collar" she wore to indicate her disapproval of an opinion, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg built her career on the fight for women’s rights.
Before her days as a judg... |
0fe3d95e09ea17a4a398073b568a8ad9 | https://www.history.com/news/saddam-hussein-capture-iraq-interrogations-eric-maddox | The Surprising Interrogations That Led to Saddam Hussein’s Capture | The Surprising Interrogations That Led to Saddam Hussein’s Capture
After coalition forces invaded Iraq in March 2003 and toppled its government, the U.S. military launched an intensive manhunt. The target? The nation’s deposed dictator, Saddam Hussein, who escaped Baghdad when the capital fell.
Nine months later, in an... |
e5fd0743f27e8906eafef1447b14c996 | https://www.history.com/news/salk-polio-vaccine-shortages-problems?fbclid=IwAR1ya6HBvkfNEo5qGJZ6bh7a5x0SaAOxKC6eDDS2_Pu47PYmse3F9b7-JMU | How the Polio Vaccine Faced Distribution Shortages and Setbacks | How the Polio Vaccine Faced Distribution Shortages and Setbacks
On April 12, 1955, every American newspaper and TV set jubilantly announced that Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was a success. Just three years earlier, during the worst polio outbreak in U.S. history, 57,000 people were infected, 21,000 were paralyzed and 3,1... |
fd229d45782b92573943d9d7e9a09f8d | https://www.history.com/news/same-date-8-years-apart-from-emmett-till-to-i-have-a-dream-in-photos | The Civil Rights Movement in Photos, from Emmett Till’s Murder to ‘I Have a Dream' | The Civil Rights Movement in Photos, from Emmett Till’s Murder to ‘I Have a Dream'
On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally beaten and lynched, just days after he allegedly whistled at a white woman in a local store. By the time his remains were found three d... |
4a759e95a44c19f1575a2baf2b201d07 | https://www.history.com/news/sandra-day-oconnor-swing-vote-bush-gore-election | How Sandra Day O’Connor’s Swing Vote Decided the 2000 Election | How Sandra Day O’Connor’s Swing Vote Decided the 2000 Election
The inner workings of the Supreme Court aren’t usually gripping prime-time viewing. But on the evening of December 12, 2000, the Court dominated headlines as it ended one of the United States’ most contentious elections. And all eyes were on one justice: Sa... |
e5e954ec682d27df1f06f90d0c62aa15 | https://www.history.com/news/sanitation-workers-strike-memphis | How the 1968 Sanitation Workers' Strike Expanded the Civil Rights Struggle | How the 1968 Sanitation Workers' Strike Expanded the Civil Rights Struggle
On February 12, 1968, 1,300 Black sanitation workers in Memphis began a strike to demand better working conditions and higher pay. Their stand marked an early fight for financial justice for workers of color as part of the civil rights movement.... |
9b1dd0299b4e18fbeb34f8e73a3ff6c0 | https://www.history.com/news/santa-goes-to-war | When Santa Claus Was Deplored in Wartime | When Santa Claus Was Deplored in Wartime
Although “peace on earth” may never have seemed more elusive than during the Civil War, America’s bloodiest years actually produced our popular image of Santa Claus. Clement Clarke Moore had injected Santa into the American psyche with his 1823 poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (... |
910c92ab8a1ea5ffff43f71926622890 | https://www.history.com/news/sars-outbreak-china-lessons | SARS Pandemic: How the Virus Spread Around the World in 2003 | SARS Pandemic: How the Virus Spread Around the World in 2003
In November 2002, doctors in the Guangdong province of southeastern China began to see the first cases of what would become known as SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome. Over the next several months, 8,096 people in 26 countries contracted the new vira... |
b1c6ccf3d80f11ff6e0c97f4e5d5aea0 | https://www.history.com/news/satellite-images-provide-blueprint-for-ancient-egypt | Satellite Images Provide Blueprint for Ancient Egypt | Satellite Images Provide Blueprint for Ancient Egypt
For more than a year, Parcak and her team scanned giant swaths of Egypt with a combination of NASA and commercial satellites, using techniques they had developed on a smaller scale and previously employed in regions in the South Sinai, East Delta and Middle Egypt. “T... |
e723d3a1bac43ce31393f47be00d9598 | https://www.history.com/news/satellite-technology-suggests-new-viking-site-in-canada | Satellite Technology Suggests New Viking Site in Canada | Satellite Technology Suggests New Viking Site in Canada
Penned in the 12th and 13th centuries, the Icelandic Sagas chronicle the exploits of the Vikings, seafaring adventurers and warriors who left their native Scandinavia starting in the 8th century and began traveling the world. Their journeys, preserved in earlier o... |
fa7cb3aa89557b985d7136f2e4143b02 | https://www.history.com/news/scholar-claims-worship-of-water-explains-mexicos-ancient-city | Scholar Claims Worship of Water Explains Mexico’s Ancient City | Scholar Claims Worship of Water Explains Mexico’s Ancient City
For centuries, archaeologists and other scholars have struggled to unlock the secrets of the ancient city of Teotihuacán. After reaching its peak just as the Roman Empire was in decline, the city was largely destroyed around A.D. 600 by fire and looting, pe... |
c1e738bf0e1263312592128fc0d378dd | https://www.history.com/news/scholar-questions-key-period-in-declaration-of-independence | Scholar Questions Key Period in Declaration of Independence | Scholar Questions Key Period in Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–”
So goes the beginning of the second sentence of ... |
d217ed7681892e2d4529363429141868 | https://www.history.com/news/school-outside-tuberculosis | When Fears of Tuberculosis Drove an Open-Air School Movement | When Fears of Tuberculosis Drove an Open-Air School Movement
As the 20th century dawned, tuberculosis—otherwise known as consumption, “white plague” or “white death”—had become the leading cause of death in the United States. The dreaded lung disease killed an estimated 450 Americans a day, most of them between the age... |
b566d982e6c7e1aafca31ec471f24d27 | https://www.history.com/news/scientist-finds-hidden-portraits-underneath-mona-lisa | Scientist Finds Hidden Portraits Underneath “Mona Lisa” | Scientist Finds Hidden Portraits Underneath “Mona Lisa”
According to widely accepted historical wisdom, Leonardo Da Vinci painted his Renaissance masterwork “Mona Lisa” sometime between 1503 and 1517, while he worked in Florence and later in France. Beyond those vague details, the painting’s origins have been draped in... |
37beab92be0987f36d916eb4b67ee580 | https://www.history.com/news/scientists-blame-gerbils-not-rats-for-the-black-death | Scientists Blame Gerbils (Not Rats) for the Black Death | Scientists Blame Gerbils (Not Rats) for the Black Death
In the new study, researchers from the University of Oslo analyzed climate data going back to the 14th century, looking for information about the weather conditions that coincided with outbreaks of the bubonic plague, or Black Death. Specifically, the scientists a... |
16704a1ee76863f24492130a2b0da818 | https://www.history.com/news/scientists-confirm-crystal-as-oldest-piece-of-earths-crust | Scientists Confirm Crystal as Oldest Piece of Earth’s Crust | Scientists Confirm Crystal as Oldest Piece of Earth’s Crust
Due to plate tectonics and weathering, very little of the Earth’s early surface remains for scientists to study. With a few exceptions, the vast majority of surface rocks on the planet are relatively modern, dating back less than a few hundred million years ol... |
22573f99444162fd287d40d70abaef50 | https://www.history.com/news/scientists-discover-protective-ghost-glaciers-in-greenland | Scientists Discover Protective “Ghost Glaciers” in Greenland | Scientists Discover Protective “Ghost Glaciers” in Greenland
In the latest issue of the Geological Society of America Bulletin, the new study’s authors shared findings collected during their recent work in the rocky highlands of central northwestern Greenland, near Baffin Bay and the town of Upernavik. In order to dete... |
d6c9dd522f3291e874cd6589cb1f6b13 | https://www.history.com/news/scientists-discover-two-giant-new-late-triassic-creatures | Scientists Discover Two Giant New Late-Triassic Creatures | Scientists Discover Two Giant New Late-Triassic Creatures
Scientists recently uncovered the fossilized bones of a human-sized salamander-like creature dating to the Late Triassic period (some 220 to 230 million years ago) in the Algarve, Portugal’s southernmost region. They dubbed the newly identified species Metoposau... |
12e18651da345bfd1baaf23c9d2e72bc | https://www.history.com/news/scientists-find-soft-tissue-in-75-million-year-old-dinosaur-bones | Scientists Find Soft Tissue in 75-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bones | Scientists Find Soft Tissue in 75-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bones
Unlike bones and teeth, which can survive for hundreds of millions of years, soft tissues are among the first materials to disappear during the fossilization process. Even so, scientists have found intact soft tissue in dinosaur bones before. The most fa... |
7bb769d8fa788d67325cac34a2dc1921 | https://www.history.com/news/scientists-find-worlds-oldest-sperm | Scientists Find World’s Oldest Sperm | Scientists Find World’s Oldest Sperm
Scientists aren’t sure exactly what went down in the cave in Queensland, Australia, some 17 million years ago, but they know they’ve discovered something big–something giant, in fact. Not only is the fossilized ostracod sperm they found the oldest ever, it’s also enormous. According... |
e17946e0f6c4cacc14bffc2e3e2571c1 | https://www.history.com/news/scientists-just-found-a-doomed-antarctic-explorers-last-painting | Scientists Just Found a Doomed Antarctic Explorer’s Lost Painting | Scientists Just Found a Doomed Antarctic Explorer’s Lost Painting
The painting depicts a white-breasted bird lying on its back, its delicate beak tipped into the air. Labeled simply “Tree-Creeper, March 1899,” it was found in a paper portfolio left on a bunk in one of two historic huts on Cape Adare, a peninsula on the... |
dc17f4898797314ebdffd15d7800c9f7 | https://www.history.com/news/scientists-make-biggest-break-in-quest-to-find-life-beyond-earth | Scientists Make Biggest Breakthrough in Quest to Find Life Beyond Earth | Scientists Make Biggest Breakthrough in Quest to Find Life Beyond Earth
Though astronomers have long known that other stars in the Milky Way galaxy have planets orbiting them, they weren’t actually able to see such exoplanets until just a couple of decades ago. Now they have confirmed the existence of more than 3,400, ... |
dd0c38b0ad33d68e97345e00dbc5b3ee | https://www.history.com/news/scientists-probe-mystery-behind-chiles-ancient-whale-graveyard | Scientists Probe Mystery Behind Chile’s Ancient Whale Graveyard | Scientists Probe Mystery Behind Chile’s Ancient Whale Graveyard
Locals have long known that a certain region of Chile’s Atacama Desert contained the bones of ancient whales, and could even spot some of them sticking out of rocks. For this reason, they christened the site Cerro Ballena, or “Whale Hill.” But scientists h... |
e640df27ff223cd1737a8bf24b5dc29f | https://www.history.com/news/scientists-reconstruct-45000-year-old-human-genome | Scientists Reconstruct 45,000-Year-Old Human Genome | Scientists Reconstruct 45,000-Year-Old Human Genome
Ivory carver and historian Nikolai Peristov was searching for mammoth tusks on the banks of Siberia’s Irtysh River in 2008 when he saw a thighbone in the water near the settlement of Ust’-Ishim. Peristov brought it to scientists at the Russian Academy of Sciences who ... |
032fefcab7b95ed145f5021be30121b5 | https://www.history.com/news/scientists-reveal-inside-story-of-ancient-egyptian-animal-mummies | Scientists Reveal Inside Story of Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies | Scientists Reveal Inside Story of Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies
Ancient Egyptians created animal mummies for various reasons. Some were household pets buried alongside their deceased owners, or other animals that held special importance to the humans around them. Some mummified animals were intended as food offerings... |
674d22e9a76bdf57efca999d84d66c9d | https://www.history.com/news/scientists-say-dodo-birds-may-actually-have-been-pretty-smart | Scientists Say Dodo Birds May Actually Have Been Pretty Smart | Scientists Say Dodo Birds May Actually Have Been Pretty Smart
The volcanic island of Mauritius, located in the Indian Ocean about 500 miles east of Madagascar, remained uninhabited (by humans, at least) until 1598, when Dutch explorers took possession of it. Long before that, however, the island was the only known habi... |
779ba9fd7c9cf29ad5c648ceb2d7c203 | https://www.history.com/news/scientists-say-language-may-have-evolved-to-help-toolmakers | Scientists Say Language May Have Evolved to Help Toolmakers | Scientists Say Language May Have Evolved to Help Toolmakers
As it’s impossible to track words and linguistic ability directly through the archaeological record, scientists have previously attempted to study the evolution of language through “proxy indicator” skills, such as early art or the ability to make more sophist... |
1a6877b034b1499727ae620b50453a0d | https://www.history.com/news/scientists-seek-cholera-dna-in-tuscan-cemetery | Scientists Seek Cholera DNA in Tuscan Cemetery | Scientists Seek Cholera DNA in Tuscan Cemetery
Caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae (V. cholerae), the disease known as cholera invades the small intestine, causing severe diarrhea and dehydration; in the most extreme cases, it can kill its victims within hours. Beginning in the early 19th century, cholera spread fr... |
4294e3b690c22f422ebfec541d545caa | https://www.history.com/news/scopes-monkey-trial-evolution-religion-darrow-bryan | The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial Pitted Science Against Religion: Watch Rare Footage | The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial Pitted Science Against Religion: Watch Rare Footage
History Flashback takes a look at historical “found footage” of all kinds—newsreels, instructional films, even cartoons—to give us a glimpse into how much things have changed, and how much has remained the same.
In the scorching summer heat o... |
32806e3ceb672cc157a559810fa40e3f | https://www.history.com/news/scotland-fights-its-way-to-freedom-700-years-ago | Scotland Fights Its Way to Freedom, 700 Years Ago | Scotland Fights Its Way to Freedom, 700 Years Ago
In 1291, following a century of peace between the two kingdoms, English King Edward I pronounced himself the feudal overlord of Scotland, and he cemented his authority five years later with a successful invasion. Although a Scottish rebellion then broke out led by Willi... |
a62735f1bf6c35b3ad19ddb44cb419ae | https://www.history.com/news/scott-carpenter-second-american-to-orbit-the-earth-dies-at-88 | Scott Carpenter, Second American to Orbit the Earth, Dies at 88 | Scott Carpenter, Second American to Orbit the Earth, Dies at 88
Scott Carpenter wasn’t supposed to be the second American to orbit the Earth. Donald “Deke” Slayton was originally scheduled for the second orbital mission, but was grounded when doctors discovered a heart irregularity. Slayton would be the only one of the... |
4f0a36e65b9a13981c7823015ebae9ae | https://www.history.com/news/scottsboro-boys-naacp-communist-party | Why the Communist Party Defended the Scottsboro Boys | Why the Communist Party Defended the Scottsboro Boys
As the freight train whisked its way over the Alabama rails in 1931, nine boys’ lives were changed forever. The details of their skirmish with a group of white men and two women on the train are still unclear. But by the end of the train ride, nine young men—all Afri... |
4e411c0d94fdb2870e3adc645071302f | https://www.history.com/news/search-begins-for-another-king-possibly-buried-under-a-parking-lot | Search Begins For Another King Possibly Buried Under a Parking Lot | Search Begins For Another King Possibly Buried Under a Parking Lot
The youngest of four sons born to King William I (better known as William the Conqueror), King Henry I ascended to the throne in 1100, after the death of his older brother, William II, in a hunting accident. He acted quickly to seize power, taking advan... |
fdd15322b7540e5f8a3c6f8b52a8fe81 | https://www.history.com/news/search-for-long-lost-world-war-ii-dead-heats-up-in-italy | Search for Long-Lost World War II Dead Heats Up in Italy | Search for Long-Lost World War II Dead Heats Up in Italy
The first attempt at locating the wreckage of the duck took place in 2004, led by a Connecticut-based underwater archaeology group, ProMare, which had successfully located similar WWII wreck sites in Japan, Greece and elsewhere, including the 2005 discovery of th... |
e8fe1d57229391794d1733a360f0bfe4 | https://www.history.com/news/search-is-on-for-original-womens-rights-declaration | Search Is On For Original Women’s Rights Declaration | Search Is On For Original Women’s Rights Declaration
The origins of the first U.S. women’s rights convention in the United States, held in July 1848 at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, can be traced to a different event held eight years earlier in London, England. After crossing the Atlantic with their hu... |
dffbb84280b2bc7e6bb6f7adb3ada75d | https://www.history.com/news/sears-catalog-houses-hubcaps | When the Sears Catalog Sold Everything from Houses to Hubcaps | When the Sears Catalog Sold Everything from Houses to Hubcaps
Before there was Amazon.com, there was the Sears catalog. Founded as a mail-order watch company in the late 19th century, Sears, Roebuck and Company made its name with its swollen, jam-packed catalogs that advertised everything from underwear to entire house... |
24ddb4ef7d856484cf3ebfd359eb6d26 | https://www.history.com/news/second-gilded-age-income-inequality | Are We Living in the Gilded Age 2.0 ? | Are We Living in the Gilded Age 2.0 ?
In a region filled with the palatial homes of the rich and famous, one mansion stands out. Measuring an astonishing 38,000 square feet (plus 17,000 more on the exterior), it was crafted with the finest and most expensive materials. The interior boasts 12 bedrooms, 21 bathrooms and ... |
d124bf53f79c438ec75656d3f15674fa | https://www.history.com/news/secret-agents-in-hoop-skirts-women-spies-of-the-civil-war | Secret Agents in Hoop Skirts: Women Spies of the Civil War | Secret Agents in Hoop Skirts: Women Spies of the Civil War
Known from a young age as “Wild Rose,” Rose O’Neal Greenhow ascended the ranks of Washington, D.C., society as the wife of a wealthy and prominent doctor. Her charmed life took a tragic turn in the 1850s, when her husband and five of their eight children died. ... |
62fff4eca0701e5d34e5c56cdcaaca13 | https://www.history.com/news/secret-societies-freemasons-knights-templar | 5 of History's Most Mysterious Secret Societies | 5 of History's Most Mysterious Secret Societies
Secret societies have flourished throughout history and count Founding Fathers and royals among their ranks. Members (most often men) have been tapped to join The Knights Templar, the Freemasons, the Bavarian Illuminati, Skull and Bones and Bilderberg. The allure of secre... |
44fd7c6dbb54401e8969f1b9e339f68b | https://www.history.com/news/secretariats-record-breaking-run-40-years-later | Secretariat’s Record-Breaking Run, 40 Years Later | Secretariat’s Record-Breaking Run, 40 Years Later
In the fall of 1969, stable owners Ogden Phipps and Penny Chenery met in the offices of the New York Racing Association for what turned out to be one of the most important coin tosses in sports history. The winner would receive the recently born foal of the sire Bold Ru... |
a9a5e5551d891c75fa8bb420c9034190 | https://www.history.com/news/secrets-of-new-dead-sea-scrolls-come-to-light | Secrets of New Dead Sea Scrolls Come to Light | Secrets of New Dead Sea Scrolls Come to Light
Though the term “Dead Sea Scrolls” has been applied scrolls found in other caves around the Judean Desert, it is more specifically used to refer to the scrolls first discovered in the caves near the ancient settlement of Qumran between 1947 and 1956. After the teenage sheph... |
d040a896e20e39a11ef337e3e0d2e508 | https://www.history.com/news/selma-bloody-sunday-attack-civil-rights-movement | How Selma's 'Bloody Sunday' Became a Turning Point in the Civil Rights Movement | How Selma's 'Bloody Sunday' Became a Turning Point in the Civil Rights Movement
Nearly a century after the Confederacy’s guns fell silent, the racial legacies of slavery and Reconstruction continued to reverberate loudly throughout Alabama in 1965. On March 7, 1965, when then-25-year-old activist John Lewis led over 60... |
16fc4470721bfe972d2b95d91b826232 | https://www.history.com/news/september-11-attacks-photos | September 11: Photos of the Worst Terrorist Attack on U.S. Soil | September 11: Photos of the Worst Terrorist Attack on U.S. Soil
The September 11 attacks struck the nation on a clear, late summer morning on the East Coast. Hijackers used jet airliners as weapons and rammed them into New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon. One hijacked plane crashed in a field outside Sh... |
0f63ef003406343d6362c194e38ae076 | https://www.history.com/news/september-11-attacks-shootdown-order-cheney-bush | Behind the 9/11 White House Order to Shoot Down U.S. Airliners: ‘It Had to be Done’ | Behind the 9/11 White House Order to Shoot Down U.S. Airliners: ‘It Had to be Done’
It’s hard to imagine an American leader authorizing the shoot-down of civilian aircraft. But in the first hour following the attacks of September 11, 2001, when it was unclear how many passenger jets had been weaponized by terrorists—an... |
4d9752165200141a843a6898a5c35a9d | https://www.history.com/news/september-11-attacks-videos | September 11 Attacks: Videos | September 11 Attacks: Videos
On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 men hijacked four U.S. commercial airplanes that had taken off with full fuel tanks for the West Coast. The hijackers deliberately crashed the planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and onto a field outside of Shanksville... |
a1f6d19af65157b8647a1145a19f18da | https://www.history.com/news/settlement-in-stonehenge-area-goes-back-10000-years | Settlement in Stonehenge Area Goes Back 10,000 Years | Settlement in Stonehenge Area Goes Back 10,000 Years
Among the artifacts that researchers have unearthed at the Blick Mead archaeological site in Amesbury are the discarded bones of several large animals and numerous burned flints. Using carbon dating techniques, the scientists have been able to confirm that the new fi... |
4c6ae0def2ab06d02112ba5e6f58369a | https://www.history.com/news/sex-and-the-city-characters-tv-formula | I'm a Carrie!–How 'Sex and the City' Riffed on TV's Four-Gal-Pal Formula | I'm a Carrie!–How 'Sex and the City' Riffed on TV's Four-Gal-Pal Formula
“Which ‘Sex and the City’ character are you?” It’s a question, that, when typed into Google, yields a whopping 377 million search results. That’s a lot of quizzes about four fictional ladies-about-town named Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha... |
136d4f3188497aaf2288f2de7e0d0121 | https://www.history.com/news/sexual-exploitation-was-the-norm-for-19th-century-ballerinas | Sexual Exploitation Was the Norm for 19th Century Ballerinas | Sexual Exploitation Was the Norm for 19th Century Ballerinas
The star’s moment should be triumphant. She’s brilliantly lit, her leg lifted in a graceful ballet pose, and she’s clearly the star of the show. But in the wings lurks a black-clad figure—a symbol for the sordid backstage reality of the ballerina.
It’s not cl... |
b655afce0d68cb4c94b2f5ca319261f6 | https://www.history.com/news/shackleton-endurance-expedition-antarctica-photos | Extraordinary 1915 Photos from Ernest Shackleton’s Disastrous Antarctic Expedition | Extraordinary 1915 Photos from Ernest Shackleton’s Disastrous Antarctic Expedition
When photographer Frank Hurley signed on to document British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s expedition to the South Pole in 1914, he knew he’d be capturing some of the earliest images of Antarctica’s bleak and beautiful unexplored terrain.... |
b19284aa5befda34b866b1c3bff88948 | https://www.history.com/news/shakespeares-suppers | Shakespeare’s Suppers | Shakespeare’s Suppers
Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Those words might be the most famous ones Shakespeare ever wrote about food, but they’re hardly the only ones. In between the star-crossed lovers, the mad kings and the bumbling courtiers, Shakespeare mentions food in every one of his... |
90a786b2e46aa0230be0bd9cf846dfd3 | https://www.history.com/news/shes-leaving-home-our-female-ancestors-wanderlust | She’s Leaving Home: Our Female Ancestors’ Wanderlust | She’s Leaving Home: Our Female Ancestors’ Wanderlust
Led by Sandi Copeland of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder have used high-tech dental analysis to gain insight into ancient hominins’ relationships to their homelands—and, by extension, to t... |
c2389193adf5759360da22ecf5f1ef51 | https://www.history.com/news/ship-from-doomed-arctic-expedition-found-after-170-years | Ship From Doomed Arctic Expedition Found After 170 Years | Ship From Doomed Arctic Expedition Found After 170 Years
It’s one of the most puzzling mysteries in maritime history. In 1845, famed Arctic explorer and British hero Sir John Franklin left England on a mission to navigate the fabled Northwest Passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. After last being spotted ... |
93bfa91b51eefea7405f51777de5276a | https://www.history.com/news/shipwrecks-from-great-whaling-disaster-of-1871-found-off-alaskan-coast | Shipwrecks from Great Whaling Disaster of 1871 Found Off Alaskan Coast | Shipwrecks from Great Whaling Disaster of 1871 Found Off Alaskan Coast
The whaling ships’ captains waited for a change in the winds, but it never came. Instead, some 33 vessels remained trapped in the conjoined mass of floating ice shards known as pack ice that had formed in the Arctic waters off the Alaskan coast. In ... |
7841bb0ad5bb4588b8f7a0b341519f82 | https://www.history.com/news/shirley-chisholm-presidential-campaign-george-wallace | Shirley Chisholm Ran for President When No One Believed in Her | Shirley Chisholm Ran for President When No One Believed in Her
The Democratic National Convention was a tense scene in July of 1972. The gathering in Miami came just one month after burglars had broken into the Democratic headquarters at the Watergate. The candidate who won the presidential nomination would be the one ... |
0bc159078beca6fcfb77af003974e1df | https://www.history.com/news/shocking-political-scandals-united-states | The Biggest Political Scandals in American History | The Biggest Political Scandals in American History
Just days after Grover Cleveland won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1884, the Buffalo Evening Telegraph published a shocking expose. The paper revealed that, a decade earlier, Cleveland allegedly sexually assaulted Maria Halpin, a woman he was infatuated wit... |
ea554a081b7373da8b20155158650578 | https://www.history.com/news/shot-in-the-chest-100-years-ago-teddy-roosevelt-kept-on-talking | When Teddy Roosevelt Was Shot in 1912, a Speech May Have Saved His Life | When Teddy Roosevelt Was Shot in 1912, a Speech May Have Saved His Life
Theodore Roosevelt’s opening line was hardly remarkable for a presidential campaign speech: “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible.” His second line, however, was a bombshell.
“I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have jus... |
294578e4b31a1fc5f1ad4cbe72102422 | https://www.history.com/news/should-harriet-tubman-replace-jackson-on-the-20-bill | Should Harriet Tubman Replace Jackson on the $20 Bill? | Should Harriet Tubman Replace Jackson on the $20 Bill?
The last time the portraits on America’s paper currency got a major renovation was in 1928, when Andrew Jackson replaced Grover Cleveland as the face of the $20 bill. Nearly 90 years have passed since then, and the advocacy group Women on 20s is arguing that it’s h... |
dfbb264714426272476abc9d572149b7 | https://www.history.com/news/shroud-of-turin-not-a-medieval-forgery-according-to-new-book | Shroud of Turin Not a Medieval Forgery, According to New Book | Shroud of Turin Not a Medieval Forgery, According to New Book
For centuries, scientists and historians have pored over the mysterious Shroud of Turin, a bloodstained piece of linen that bears the faint outline of a longhaired man with wounds consistent with crucifixion. Many believe that Jesus Christ was buried in the ... |
a98e5ae5e869fffd29c017346ff6bbcf | https://www.history.com/news/shroud-of-turin-the-work-of-a-renaissance-artist | Shroud of Turin: The Work of a Renaissance Artist? | Shroud of Turin: The Work of a Renaissance Artist?
For centuries, scientists and historians have pored over the mysterious Shroud of Turin, a bloodstained piece of linen that bears the faint outline of a crucified man, hoping to decode what the image represents and how it was created. The first documented reference to ... |
8b209cd26e1c4850b5c51d93652a6e8f | https://www.history.com/news/shroud-turin-forensic-study-not-jesus-burial-cloth | Shroud of Turin Isn’t Jesus’ Burial Cloth, Claims Forensic Study | Shroud of Turin Isn’t Jesus’ Burial Cloth, Claims Forensic Study
Over the past several centuries, many people have claimed to have found Jesus’ original burial cloth. One of the most famous candidates is the Shroud of Turin, so named because it has been housed in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy, s... |
c1791f6021105cda6f84c0d1bf3eaa8d | https://www.history.com/news/silver-laden-world-war-ii-shipwreck-discovered | Silver-Laden World War II Shipwreck Discovered | Silver-Laden World War II Shipwreck Discovered
[slideshow exclude=”4109″]In December 1940, a British steamship bound for Liverpool left Calcutta laden with precious cargo, including up to 240 tons of silver worth an estimated $210 million in today’s dollars. Operating for the United Kingdom’s Ministry of War Transport,... |
5032614c7af083a1c79c2996a80f33d0 | https://www.history.com/news/six-things-you-may-not-know-about-samuel-morse | 6 Things You May Not Know About Samuel Morse | 6 Things You May Not Know About Samuel Morse
1. Morse had an earlier career as an accomplished painter. The son of a Calvinist preacher, Massachusetts-born Samuel F. B. Morse studied philosophy and mathematics at Yale University before turning his attention to the arts, eventually travelling to England in 1811 to study... |
2356e7c3e4c06ee1f0a3f7c816798239 | https://www.history.com/news/six-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-louvre | 6 Things You May Not Know About the Louvre | 6 Things You May Not Know About the Louvre
The Louvre began life in the late 12th century when Philip II (or Philip Augustus), the first person to be officially known as the King of France and one of medieval Europe’s most successful rulers, began construction on a defensive outpost near what was then the western borde... |
4c67ad8d169a61c81ee2a049d59f7cab | https://www.history.com/news/six-unsung-heroines-of-the-civil-rights-movement | Six Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement | Six Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement
While their stories may not be widely known, countless dedicated, courageous women were key organizers and activists in the fight for civil rights. Without these women, the struggle for equality would have never been waged. “Women have been the backbone of the whole civi... |
2a5513c0c3fb7b8d26ecb7fc2d2a382b | https://www.history.com/news/skeleton-may-help-solve-amelia-earhart-mystery | Skeleton May Help Solve Amelia Earhart Mystery | Skeleton May Help Solve Amelia Earhart Mystery
TIGHAR, which has spent more than 25 years investigating the ill-fated final voyage of Amelia Earhart, believes Earhart’s plane did not crash in the Pacific Ocean, as many believe, but rather that she and her co-pilot Fred Noonan were able to make a landing on the remote, ... |
5ae891f01024fae83989298f39a1b3d2 | https://www.history.com/news/skinwalker-ranch-paranormal-ufos-mutilation | How Skinwalker Ranch Became a Hotbed of Paranormal Activity | How Skinwalker Ranch Became a Hotbed of Paranormal Activity
Some have called it a supernatural place. Others have deemed it “cursed.” Terry Sherman got so spooked by the happenings on his new cattle ranch that 18 months after moving his family of four to the property now known by many as “Skinwalker Ranch” in northeast... |
8fa2ecce5323ed3b6cfacfd285a3826a | https://www.history.com/news/sky-high-sourdough-expensive-vittles-in-gold-rush-fields | Sky-High Sourdough: Expensive Vittles in Gold Rush Fields | Sky-High Sourdough: Expensive Vittles in Gold Rush Fields
When we think of foods of the California Gold Rush, our thoughts are likely to turn to sourdough bread and Hangtown Fry. But a much more interesting phenomenon was at work in the gold fields of Northern California in the 1850s: an out of control rate of inflatio... |
b4234b9fd3128b6342fb9a67d661b825 | https://www.history.com/news/slave-bible-redacted-old-testament | Why Bibles Given to Slaves Omitted Most of the Old Testament | Why Bibles Given to Slaves Omitted Most of the Old Testament
When slavery was legal, its proponents often justified it with the Bible; specifically, a verse that tells servants to obey their masters. There were also a lot of verses that abolitionists could and did use to argue against slavery. But you wouldn’t find tho... |
9c30fa29c4dfaeb537a1cabe582ce15b | https://www.history.com/news/slavery-american-colonization-society-liberia | How a Movement to Send Freed Slaves to Africa Created Liberia | How a Movement to Send Freed Slaves to Africa Created Liberia
The biggest question facing the leaders of the United States in the early 19th century was what to do about slavery. Should it continue or should the U.S. abolish it? Could the country really be home to free black people and enslaved black people at the same... |
7594d60a5d7b2fbfd506e6e33933e3cc | https://www.history.com/news/slavery-escape-william-ellen-craft | The Daring Disguise that Helped One Enslaved Couple Escape to Freedom | The Daring Disguise that Helped One Enslaved Couple Escape to Freedom
In the mid 19th century in Macon, Georgia, a man and woman fell in love, married and, as many young couples do, began thinking about starting a family. But Ellen and William Craft were both enslaved and were well aware that any of their future childr... |
1f817a2fe6e00b6a9e0762622f22c4ed | https://www.history.com/news/slavery-new-england-rhode-island | How Slavery Persisted in New England Until the 19th Century | How Slavery Persisted in New England Until the 19th Century
Slavery was a dominant feature of the antebellum South, but it was also pervasive in the pre-Civil War North—the New England states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island all have a history of slavery. In the early coloni... |
394e1693600810ff93e93d03060b5077 | https://www.history.com/news/slavery-profitable-southern-economy | How Slavery Became the Economic Engine of the South | How Slavery Became the Economic Engine of the South
With cash crops of tobacco, cotton and sugar cane, America’s southern states became the economic engine of the burgeoning nation. Their fuel of choice? Human slavery.
If the Confederacy had been a separate nation, it would have ranked as the fourth richest in the worl... |
103d033fe589305ae957e73441f44d7d | https://www.history.com/news/slaves-clotilda-ship-built-africatown | Descendants of Last Slave Ship Still Live in Alabama Community | Descendants of Last Slave Ship Still Live in Alabama Community
For most black Americans descended from enslaved Africans, there’s no way of tracing back where their ancestors came from. There’s also no way of discovering, as Malcolm X emphasized, their “true family name.” The slave trade ripped families apart, and reco... |
e3b2785ee690fd2a0fef37eb0cb43504 | https://www.history.com/news/smallpox-george-washington-revolutionary-war | How Crude Smallpox Inoculations Helped George Washington Win the War | How Crude Smallpox Inoculations Helped George Washington Win the War
When George Washington took command of the Continental Army in 1775, America was fighting a war on two fronts: one for independence from the British, and a second for survival against smallpox. Because Washington knew the ravages of the disease firsth... |
663a1d777cfaa520c78933c3f895180c | https://www.history.com/news/smallpox-vaccine-onesimus-slave-cotton-mather | How an African Slave in Boston Helped Save Generations from Smallpox | How an African Slave in Boston Helped Save Generations from Smallpox
The news was terrifying to colonists in Massachusetts: Smallpox had made it to Boston and was spreading rapidly. The first victims, passengers on a ship from the Caribbean, were shut up in a house identified only by a red flag that read “God have merc... |
c4025e2ad81edf5d506e8cfb1ad55a69 | https://www.history.com/news/snapshots-of-amelia-earharts-legendary-life | Snapshots of Amelia Earhart’s Legendary Life | Snapshots of Amelia Earhart’s Legendary Life
In 1928 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a passenger with pilots Wilmer Stultz and Luis Gordon. With this feat she gained international attention, providing an opportunity for her to become a professional aviator. To celebrate the momentous... |
9db75515b633fdae96620117125b68a4 | https://www.history.com/news/snow-in-summer-a-global-history-of-ice-cream-and-other-frozen-treats | Snow in Summer: A Global History of Frozen Treats | Snow in Summer: A Global History of Frozen Treats
According to popular legend, ice cream was invented by the ancient Chinese, brought to Italy by Marco Polo, to France by Catherine de Medici, and thence to America by Thomas Jefferson. The truth, however, about summer’s favorite chilled dairy treat is a bit more difficu... |
bb579dc818b95ebf3b95ee646ccd6ef9 | https://www.history.com/news/socialism-communism-differences | How Are Socialism and Communism Different? | How Are Socialism and Communism Different?
Both socialism and communism are essentially economic philosophies advocating public rather than private ownership, especially of the means of production, distribution and exchange of goods (i.e., making money) in a society. Both aim to fix the problems they see as created by ... |
8799e394292734cf7bf965c5ee695249 | https://www.history.com/news/soldier-wartime-food-rations-battle-napoleon-vietnam | Battlefield Rations: What Troops Have Eaten Through the Ages | Battlefield Rations: What Troops Have Eaten Through the Ages
As the saying goes, an army marches on its stomach, relying on good and plentiful food to fuel its ability to fight.
For contemporary U.S. armed forces in combat, that usually means Meals, Ready-to-Eat, or MREs. U.S. armed forces switched to MREs in the early... |
b8148be81a8c77711e7e1853cb72df08 | https://www.history.com/news/sons-of-liberty-members-causes | Who Were the Sons of Liberty? | Who Were the Sons of Liberty?
The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America who used an extreme form of civil disobedience—threats, and in some cases actual violence—to intimidate loyalists and outrage the British government. The goal of the radicals was to push moderat... |
d86ac0f2082c89fc21a7f5dd23c5c87e | https://www.history.com/news/soviet-union-stalin-weekend-labor-policy | For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends | For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends
For the urban workforce of the Soviet Union, September 29, 1929, was a Sunday like any other—a day of rest after six days of labor. Sunday was the prize at the finish line: a day’s holiday, where people might see family, attend church or clean their homes. But in the eyes ... |
c2f9f13155e9dda3c29fe2a54aea8c4c | https://www.history.com/news/space-object-alien-harvard | Is This Cigar-Shaped Space Object an Alien Ship? | Is This Cigar-Shaped Space Object an Alien Ship?
Could a large, cigar-shaped object floating through space be part of an alien spacecraft? Astronomers at Harvard University don’t rule it out in a recent paper.
Scientists spotted the object in October 2017, at first thinking it was a comet or an asteroid, and later wond... |
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