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4d4aa6dbab36d75540b2fd0555c1ba6f | https://www.history.com/news/space-race-soviet-union-moon-landing-denial | The Soviet Response to the Moon Landing? Denial There Was a Moon Race at All | The Soviet Response to the Moon Landing? Denial There Was a Moon Race at All
You’ve probably heard of conspiracy theories that the moon landing was a hoax (those are false, and easily debunked). But have you heard the one about how the moon race was itself a hoax, because the Soviet Union was never trying to get to the... |
31ce87928b317d27772a61bc6001106c | https://www.history.com/news/spanish-american-war-yellow-journalism-hearst-pulitzer | Did Yellow Journalism Fuel the Outbreak of the Spanish-American War? | Did Yellow Journalism Fuel the Outbreak of the Spanish-American War?
The Spanish-American War, while dominating the media, also fueled the United States’ first media wars in the era of yellow journalism. Newspapers at the time screamed outrage, with headlines including, “Who Destroyed the Maine? $50,000 Reward,” “Spani... |
507ea4dc404dfab6481b84ee6ccc043d | https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu | More People Died in the 1918 Flu Pandemic Than in WWI | More People Died in the 1918 Flu Pandemic Than in WWI
The Past in Color features the work of colorist Marina Amaral, bringing to life black and white photos with color applied digitally.
Blue lips. Blackened skin. Blood leaking from noses and mouths. Coughing fits so intense they ripped muscles. Crippling headaches and... |
8e5ba3173b6741244b80226b239f1051 | https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-deaths-october-1918 | The Spanish Flu Led to America's Deadliest Month Ever | The Spanish Flu Led to America's Deadliest Month Ever
While war engulfed the globe in the early autumn of 1918, Roy Grist watched as the bodies of fellow soldiers piled up inside a makeshift morgue. As the U.S. Army doctor wandered through the double rows of dead doughboys, he struggled to comprehend how young men, so ... |
b8f22d46f67a755c074bac4639c4b38e | https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-pandemic-dead | Amid 1918 Flu Pandemic, America Struggled to Bury the Dead | Amid 1918 Flu Pandemic, America Struggled to Bury the Dead
As a terrifyingly lethal influenza virus swept across the globe between 1918 and 1920, history’s deadliest pandemic claimed the lives of approximately 50 million people worldwide and 675,000 in the United States. Nearly 200,000 Americans died from the “Spanish ... |
314d8cda6db17b16cd34e5a73bda708b | https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-second-wave-resurgence?fbclid=IwAR1q4nitQZA3IFLv1Dl3Jq1BJ_xGI0QfqzotehRZrVd9jFrg1HBNJLuMCaU | Why the Second Wave of the 1918 Flu Pandemic Was So Deadly | Why the Second Wave of the 1918 Flu Pandemic Was So Deadly
The horrific scale of the 1918 influenza pandemic—known as the "Spanish flu"—is hard to fathom. The virus infected 500 million people worldwide and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims—that’s more than all of the soldiers and civilians killed du... |
324fc350e67443e6d3a9f514eb86cf93 | https://www.history.com/news/spices-of-life-in-ancient-egypt | Spices of Life in Ancient Egypt | Spices of Life in Ancient Egypt
When 19th-century British explorers first discovered the tombs of the ancient Egyptians, the folks back home in England were captivated. Stories abounded in the popular press about cursed mummies, haunted crypts and ancient gods whose wrath followed the despoilers home and hounded them t... |
459c0ef943092a27bdb0f13ca0b2089d | https://www.history.com/news/spicy-find-sheds-light-on-ancient-cuisine | Spicy Find Sheds Light on Ancient Cuisine | Spicy Find Sheds Light on Ancient Cuisine
Older samples of spices such as cumin and coriander–some of them dating back as many as 23,000 years–have been found at sites in southern Europe, the Middle East and India. In these cases, however, it has been hard for scientists to determine whether they were used in cooking, ... |
6be3ca8bc73c38b8be55de4fb16b475c | https://www.history.com/news/spirit-photography-civil-war-william-mumler | When a 19th-Century ‘Spirit Photographer’ Claimed to Capture Ghosts Through His Lens | When a 19th-Century ‘Spirit Photographer’ Claimed to Capture Ghosts Through His Lens
Even 150 years later, the eerie spirit photographs taken by Boston photographer William Mumler pack an emotional punch. A mourning mother is visited by the angelic silhouette of her departed daughter, the young girl resting her tiny ha... |
ae54499f0d6eaeb0cbaa2b0f6f77c03f | https://www.history.com/news/spurned-women-who-triumphed-over-their-royal-husbands | 6 Spurned Royal Women Who Triumphed Over Their Husbands | 6 Spurned Royal Women Who Triumphed Over Their Husbands
For many women over the centuries, marriage to a royal consort has not been the fairytale we believe it to be. They battled drunk husbands, loveless marriages, led coups, killed off husbands, or sometimes quietly waited for good fortune to come their way. These wo... |
18184cbe7fe2d495011e2f5deacc56c3 | https://www.history.com/news/spy-double-agent-death-hoax-world-war-2 | The WWII Spy Who Faked His Death for 36 Years | The WWII Spy Who Faked His Death for 36 Years
After World War II, a critical MI5 spy named Juan Pujol Garcia faked his own death, and kept it secret for almost four decades. And that’s not even the most interesting thing about him.
Pujol was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War who had come to loathe totalitarianism, bot... |
c17708acc9e931dc97f855c51dd576f1 | https://www.history.com/news/st-augustine-first-american-settlement | How St. Augustine Became the First European Settlement in America | How St. Augustine Became the First European Settlement in America
Even before Jamestown or the Plymouth Colony, the oldest permanent European settlement in what is now the United States was founded in September 1565 by a Spanish soldier named Pedro Menéndez de Avilés in St. Augustine, Florida. Menéndez picked the colon... |
8193fe7ebf36241272cad553468070eb | https://www.history.com/news/st-patrick-slavery-pirate-kidnapping-real-facts | St Patrick: Kidnapped by Pirates and Enslaved at 16 | St Patrick: Kidnapped by Pirates and Enslaved at 16
Early in the 5th century, an Irish ship beat against the waves along the western coast of Great Britain. On the far edge of the crumbling Roman Empire, a band of Irish marauders crept into a secluded cove and raided the village of Bannavem Taburniae.
Among the plunder... |
e499a9cee612352d336d03fb3ed5d2de | https://www.history.com/news/st-patricks-day-facts | 7 Surprising Facts About St. Patrick's Day | 7 Surprising Facts About St. Patrick's Day
While St. Patrick’s Day is now associated with wearing green, parades (when they're not canceled) and beer, the holiday is grounded in history that dates back more than 1,500 years. The earliest known celebration was held on March 17, 1631, marking the anniversary of the death... |
c2076d21bf08512353222bb7f3164a82 | https://www.history.com/news/st-patricks-day-origins-america | How St. Patrick’s Day Was Made in America | How St. Patrick’s Day Was Made in America
Every March 17, the United States becomes an emerald country for a day. Americans wear green clothes and quaff green beer. Green milkshakes, bagels and grits appear on menus. In a leprechaun-worthy shenanigan, Chicago even dyes its river green.
Revelers from coast to coast cele... |
06a5a54a789225ef21cc68f77a57de40 | https://www.history.com/news/staged-decompression-bends-diving-goats | The Dark Story of How Scientists Used Goats to Solve the Bends | The Dark Story of How Scientists Used Goats to Solve the Bends
When the autopsy was performed on the diver in 1900, they found bubbles in his brain and heart. There were so many bubbles, in fact, that when examiners lifted the heart, it gurgled with froth. The cause of death was decompression sickness. And while docto... |
62f2be42e575ad83dd0af2dd4d80a55a | https://www.history.com/news/stan-lee-x-men-civil-rights-inspiration | How Stan Lee's X-Men Were Inspired by Real-Life Civil Rights Heroes | How Stan Lee's X-Men Were Inspired by Real-Life Civil Rights Heroes
It’s impossible to imagine American pop culture without Spider-Man. Or the Hulk. Or, thanks to a decade’s worth of mega-blockbuster films, Iron Man, Thor, Dr. Strange, and Ant-Man. These stories—all co-creations of Marvel Comics impresario Stan Lee, wh... |
5cdb14ae5f3fc5d5d3c3120ca797694a | https://www.history.com/news/statue-of-liberty-icon-building | How the Statue of Liberty Became an Icon | How the Statue of Liberty Became an Icon
The Statue of Liberty, which towers 305 feet, six inches over New York Harbor, is one of the most instantly recognizable symbols of America. It has inspired countless souvenir replicas and been referenced in everything from posters for war bonds to the final scene of the 1968 mo... |
86510227e2091c5601282fcdbe8e814b | https://www.history.com/news/stockholm-syndrome | Stockholm Syndrome: The True Story of Hostages Loyal to Their Captor | Stockholm Syndrome: The True Story of Hostages Loyal to Their Captor
On the morning of August 23, 1973, an escaped convict crossed the streets of Sweden’s capital city and entered a bustling bank, the Sveriges Kreditbanken, on Stockholm’s upscale Norrmalmstorg square. From underneath the folded jacket he carried in his... |
d85e7fc4afd35b59b13735844e59205d | https://www.history.com/news/stonehenge-damage-construction | Has Stonehenge Been Damaged By Tunnel Drilling? | Has Stonehenge Been Damaged By Tunnel Drilling?
Archaeologists have accused a construction crew of drilling into an ancient platform about a mile away from the famous Stonehenge ring. The flint-and-animal-bone platform is about 6,000 years old, and is part of an ancient settlement called Blick Mead.
Engineers were work... |
994de8450d5e42508e735cf477e2bb57 | https://www.history.com/news/stonewall-riots-facts-gay-rights-lgbt | 7 Surprising Facts About the Stonewall Riots and the Fight for LGBTQ Rights | 7 Surprising Facts About the Stonewall Riots and the Fight for LGBTQ Rights
The movement for LGBTQ rights in the United States dates at least as far back as the 1920s, when the first documented gay rights organization was founded. Since then, various groups have advocated for LGBTQ rights and the movement accelerated i... |
6b4191f15a21a00f80e10dc91edd5544 | https://www.history.com/news/stonewall-riots-lgbtq-drag-three-article-rule | When Dressing in Drag Was Labeled a Crime | When Dressing in Drag Was Labeled a Crime
Rusty Brown started dressing as a man, first as a disguise to get a factory job since she lost her war-time position as a machinist at the close of World War II, then in order to work as a drag king. This is when her troubles began.
“I have been arrested in New York more times ... |
e885ee11d05c57e2d3587123be6662e7 | https://www.history.com/news/stonewall-riots-nypd-apology | Stonewall Riots Apology: NYPD Commissioner Says 1969 Police Raids Were 'Wrong' | Stonewall Riots Apology: NYPD Commissioner Says 1969 Police Raids Were 'Wrong'
Police crowded the Stonewall Inn, beating the bar’s patrons with nightsticks and brandishing their guns. In 1969, it was common practice for police officers in New York and other cities to harass owners and patrons of bars that they suspecte... |
e3c039d78f580c9145cdf4d980eeb86e | https://www.history.com/news/stonewall-riots-timeline | What Happened at the Stonewall Riots? A Timeline of the 1969 Uprising | What Happened at the Stonewall Riots? A Timeline of the 1969 Uprising
On a hot summer night in 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a bar located in New York City’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven for the city’s gay, lesbian and transgender community.
At the time, homosexual acts remained illegal in every st... |
496dea21888949fa233c0a6670fa9795 | https://www.history.com/news/students-use-da-vinci-design-to-build-worlds-longest-ice-bridge | Students Use Da Vinci Design to Build World’s Longest Ice Bridge | Students Use Da Vinci Design to Build World’s Longest Ice Bridge
Over the past three years, the Built Environment department of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands has spearheaded the construction of the world’s largest ice dome (30 meters across) and the world’s highest (30 meters high, ba... |
f2722c85b9556fcd01648689da75782b | https://www.history.com/news/study-shows-william-was-medieval-englands-most-popular-name | Study Shows William Was Medieval England’s Most Popular Name | Study Shows William Was Medieval England’s Most Popular Name
An Old French name composed of Germanic elements (“wil,” meaning desire, and “helm,” meaning protection), William was introduced to Britain by the Normans after their invasion of England in 1066. It quickly became one of the most common given names for males ... |
ac0a710ff6a2c62fe4e4d697246a784e | https://www.history.com/news/summer-solstice-traditions | How the Ancients Celebrated the Longest Day of the Year | How the Ancients Celebrated the Longest Day of the Year
Ancient Greeks According to certain iterations of the Greek calendar—they varied widely by region and era—the summer solstice was the first day of the year. Several festivals were held around this time, including Kronia, which celebrated the agriculture god Cronus... |
c94daa0399a324a68fa6bde234565e44 | https://www.history.com/news/sunken-cities | Sunken Cities | Sunken Cities
Helike
On a winter night in 373 B.C., a massive earthquake triggered a tsunami that engulfed the Greek city of Helike, submerging the busy cultural center and its inhabitants. For centuries, the story of Helike and its demise—known only through descriptions by classical writers—was interpreted as legend; ... |
45f618968dc73eb5cc57e6bba50a8132 | https://www.history.com/news/sunken-nazi-gold-lake-toplitz-lost-legendary-treasures | Sunken Nazi Gold and 4 Other Never-Found Treasures | Sunken Nazi Gold and 4 Other Never-Found Treasures
Legend has it that the Nazis dumped billions of dollars worth of stolen gold—in the area of $5.6 billion—into the waters of Lake Toplitz, an isolated lake located in the heart of a lush forest in the Alps. There may be some legitimacy to the claim. In the 1940s, the Na... |
163e47550b0ae50247a4cd785274cf5c | https://www.history.com/news/sunni-shia-divide-islam-muslim | What Is the Sunni-Shia Divide? | What Is the Sunni-Shia Divide?
Though the two main sects within Islam, Sunni and Shia, agree on most of the fundamental beliefs and practices of Islam, a bitter split between the two goes back some 14 centuries. The divide originated with a dispute over who should succeed the Prophet Muhammad as leader of the Islamic f... |
3ecc8a752d70ea74dd946a91b122fd7b | https://www.history.com/news/super-bowl-owes-its-name-to-a-bouncy-ball | Super Bowl Owes Its Name to a Bouncy Ball | Super Bowl Owes Its Name to a Bouncy Ball
First held on January 15, 1967, the Super Bowl might never have existed without Lamar Hunt. In the late 1950s, the Arkansas-born sports entrepreneur failed to secure a license from the National Football League to start a Dallas team. So he founded a league of his own: the Ameri... |
0a25b895dd2d8b8db827eab1ffc39068 | https://www.history.com/news/super-mario-history-nintendo-donkey-kong-facts | How Super Mario Helped Nintendo Conquer the Video Game World | How Super Mario Helped Nintendo Conquer the Video Game World
The world was first introduced to one of the most iconic characters in video game history in 1981. He wasn’t much, just a handful of colored pixels on a grainy screen, a figure trying to save his girlfriend from a giant ape named Donkey Kong. By the time the ... |
7ab6dc1a4fe683f327ffa3dc6a9614d9 | https://www.history.com/news/superhenge-excavation-reveals-big-surprise | “Superhenge” Excavation Reveals Big Surprise | “Superhenge” Excavation Reveals Big Surprise
In September 2015, scientists announced that the English countryside two miles northeast of Stonehenge concealed an enormous secret—a massive stone monument possibly five times bigger than the iconic landmark. An international team of researchers with the Stonehenge Hidden L... |
fe3a07b814739d4af6ab3e1d32a5f400 | https://www.history.com/news/supreme-court-justices-number-constitution | Why Do 9 Justices Serve on the Supreme Court? | Why Do 9 Justices Serve on the Supreme Court?
Only since 1869 have there consistently been nine justices appointed to the Supreme Court. Before that, Congress routinely changed the number of justices to achieve its own partisan political goals, resulting in as few as five Supreme Court justices required by law under Jo... |
f5f0cd45d5fe059d39429a705ff76a52 | https://www.history.com/news/sweater-holocaust-girl-survivor | The Sweater That Helped a Little Girl Survive the Holocaust | The Sweater That Helped a Little Girl Survive the Holocaust
If you ask Suzy Snyder about one of the most significant artifacts in the United States Holocaust MemorialMuseum’s collection, she won’t lead you to arailcar used to deport Jews or into the museum’s heap of shoes taken from Jews before they were murdered in de... |
1ea36de5daf88fb0768dd2712d54d888 | https://www.history.com/news/swing-states-presidential-elections | What Are Swing States and How Did They Become a Key Factor in US Elections? | What Are Swing States and How Did They Become a Key Factor in US Elections?
Swing states, also known as battleground states or purple states, are highly competitive states that have historically swung between voting for different parties in presidential elections. While most states consistently vote along party lines—f... |
f47c0fc6b7a68ebabaa86744ee563e23 | https://www.history.com/news/t-rex-cousin-discovered-in-china | T. Rex Cousin Discovered in China | T. Rex Cousin Discovered in China
A long-lost cousin of prehistory’s most infamous predator, Tyrannosaurus rex, has been found and identified, according to a paper published online on April 1, 2011, in the scientific journal Cretaceous Research. The gargantuan theropod has been dubbed Zhuchengtyrannus magnus—“tyrant fr... |
ce14156ba5e7b73185c6321c0e58f08b | https://www.history.com/news/t-rex-cousin-was-largest-known-feathered-animal | T. Rex Cousin Was Largest Known Feathered Animal | T. Rex Cousin Was Largest Known Feathered Animal
Scientists have long suspected that some theropod dinosaurs—members of the bipedal, mostly carnivorous group that includes Tyrannosaurus rex—sported coats of primitive feathers. Specimens of feathered creatures from fossil beds in northeastern China have bolstered this h... |
48a599ef48840f998345a96c331a5e13 | https://www.history.com/news/t-rexs-little-cousin-new-pygmy-tyrannosaur-discovered-in-alaska | T. Rex’s Little Cousin: New Pygmy Tyrannosaur Discovered in Alaska | T. Rex’s Little Cousin: New Pygmy Tyrannosaur Discovered in Alaska
As reported this week in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of paleontologists from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas first discovered the fossilized remains of the new tyrannosaur species when preparing for a dig in 2006 at northern Alaska’s K... |
d5b2115fe4ec48f860555ce77c22ef6e | https://www.history.com/news/teddy-roosevelt-american-manliness-rough-riders | How Teddy Roosevelt Crafted an Image of American Manliness | How Teddy Roosevelt Crafted an Image of American Manliness
There were two sides to Theodore Roosevelt. One was the trust-busting progressive who reined in industrialist excess, won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the Russo-Japanese war, and set aside millions of acres of public land for wildlife conser... |
710352496970a37f39e5149ddb3ce2cc | https://www.history.com/news/teddy-roosevelt-legacies | 7 Little-Known Legacies of Teddy Roosevelt | 7 Little-Known Legacies of Teddy Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, is an outsized figure in American politics. He became president in 1901 after the assassination of William McKinley, and the brash and independent Roosevelt quickly remade the presidency in his own image. More than a... |
24162b2e0a053c7e679dd95961da0182 | https://www.history.com/news/teeth-19th-century-australia | 1,000 Teeth Recovered From Down Under Melbourne’s Subway | 1,000 Teeth Recovered From Down Under Melbourne’s Subway
If you had a toothache in Melbourne, Australia, between 1898 and the 1930s, Australian dentist J.J. Forster had a quick solution: Rip it out, and chuck it away. That, it seems, was the technique he used for around 1,000 rotting molars found by archaeologists work... |
b190a4b6cab5bf95ece941b1354bfe6f | https://www.history.com/news/tenement-photos-jacob-riis-nyc-immigrants | Photos Reveal Shocking Conditions of Tenement Slums in Late 1800s | Photos Reveal Shocking Conditions of Tenement Slums in Late 1800s
New immigrants to New York City in the late 1800s faced grim, cramped living conditions in tenement housing that once dominated the Lower East Side. During the 19th century, immigration steadily increased, causing New York City's population to double eve... |
13283d0660460a76a2f920431f12d605 | https://www.history.com/news/tenzing-norgay-and-everests-sherpas | Tenzing Norgay and Everest’s Sherpas | Tenzing Norgay and Everest’s Sherpas
On the dark evening of May 28, 1953, gale-force winds thrashed a tent clinging to a wall of ice and rock five miles high. Huddled inside, a pair of strange bedfellows—New Zealand beekeeper Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay—spent the night less than 1,200 feet from the top of ... |
a1088c3c5b969b166f7af2240c6b1dd5 | https://www.history.com/news/thank-this-man-for-your-last-minute-halloween-costume | Thank This Man For Your Last-Minute Halloween Costume | Thank This Man For Your Last-Minute Halloween Costume
What would Halloween be without store-bought costumes that reflect the year’s hottest movies and TV shows? For nearly a century, kids have been able to purchase Halloween costumes in stores. But that wasn’t always a given—and we have a bold impresario to thank for t... |
9a4af6a8e7578d922edbb56d33a1135c | https://www.history.com/news/thanksgiving-timeline | Thanksgiving: A Timeline of the Holiday | Thanksgiving: A Timeline of the Holiday
There’s no holiday that’s more quintessentially American than Thanksgiving. Learn how it has evolved from its religious roots as Spanish and English days of feasting and prayer to become the football-watching, parade-marching, gut-stuffing event it is today.
English settlers were... |
67d21e04eebbd04cb2ceac165ab25f09 | https://www.history.com/news/that-time-a-foreign-government-interfered-in-a-u-s-presidential-election-in-1796 | That Time a Foreign Government Interfered in a U.S. Presidential Election—in 1796 | That Time a Foreign Government Interfered in a U.S. Presidential Election—in 1796
While George Washington had enjoyed virtually unanimous support in the first two U.S. presidential elections, things looked a lot different by 1796. Two competing parties, the Federalists and the Republicans, had emerged, and politics had... |
e6af52353778a70a46ff0fbf5f057c66 | https://www.history.com/news/the-21-year-old-college-student-who-designed-the-vietnam-memorial | This 21-Year-Old College Student Designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial | This 21-Year-Old College Student Designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
You’ve probably seen it: the simple black walls that emerge from the peaceful Constitution Gardens in Washington, D.C., the more than 58,000 half-inch-high names inscribed on the granite. It’s the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and since 1982, it has c... |
dcb0babd391bbb5d0a32f5ec8e51e8f6 | https://www.history.com/news/the-24-hour-president | The 24-Hour President | The 24-Hour President
As 1849 dawned, America prepared for a change in presidential administrations. These were the days before Inauguration Day fell on January 20, and the term of the outgoing president, James K. Polk, ended at noon on Sunday, March 4, 1849, at which time his successor, Zachary Taylor, was to be sworn... |
e6e32c3a5d73f05a561ce120b2074cc0 | https://www.history.com/news/the-3500-year-old-rubber-ball-that-changed-sports-forever | The 3,500-Year-Old Rubber Ball That Changed Sports Forever | The 3,500-Year-Old Rubber Ball That Changed Sports Forever
Years after his conquest of Mexico, Hernan Cortés returned to the royal court of Spain’s King Carlos V in 1528 bearing riches and an exotic chocolate drink made from cacao beans. Yet it was a simple object from the New World that truly mesmerized the Spanish co... |
d24e9f67590292d44659ad085cf71d83 | https://www.history.com/news/the-5-deadliest-disasters-of-the-space-race | The 5 Deadliest Disasters of the Space Race | The 5 Deadliest Disasters of the Space Race
After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, the United States entered a fierce competition with their Communist rivals for dominance in space. The ensuing space race was filled with many notable successes – including American astronauts walking and playing golf on the Mo... |
522ceda33890cafde16dbef879ba0692 | https://www.history.com/news/the-950-year-old-battle-that-changed-the-way-you-talk | The 950-Year-Old Battle That Changed the Way You Talk | The 950-Year-Old Battle That Changed the Way You Talk
“Game of Thrones” had nothing on England in 1066.
The year dawned with England’s childless king, Edward the Confessor, near death, and multiple claimants from across Europe vying to succeed him on the throne. It was thought that Edward, whose mother was from Normand... |
15900890f5154a794ffd97655961379b | https://www.history.com/news/the-akutan-zero-how-a-captured-japanese-fighter-plane-helped-win-world-war-ii | The Akutan Zero: How a Captured Japanese Fighter Plane Helped Win World War II | The Akutan Zero: How a Captured Japanese Fighter Plane Helped Win World War II
Until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, most American servicemen had never seen a plane like the “Zero,” so named not because of the prominent Rising Sun emblem painted on the side but for the manufacturer’s type designation: Mitsubishi 6... |
e6b92680be784437ba6f5f33cc51db4d | https://www.history.com/news/the-allies-mission-of-mercy-70-years-ago | The Allies’ Mission of Mercy, 70 Years Ago | The Allies’ Mission of Mercy, 70 Years Ago
In the dying days of World War II, the days of dying still continued. Although the Third Reich had lost its grip across much of Europe by the spring of 1945, more than 120,000 German troops continued to occupy the western part of the Netherlands—including cities such as Amster... |
01f9db4b5224e2f5e730f0c3a9f1db74 | https://www.history.com/news/the-amazonian-expedition-that-nearly-killed-theodore-roosevelt | The Amazonian Expedition That Nearly Killed Theodore Roosevelt | The Amazonian Expedition That Nearly Killed Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was never a fan of idle vacations. Whether ranching in the Dakotas, cougar hunting in Arizona, or going on a yearlong safari in Africa, his travels had always involved hardship and risk—two of the key components of what he once famously t... |
f57484282dea82e586961acd8f9b61ee | https://www.history.com/news/the-amistad-slave-rebellion-175-years-ago | How the Amistad Rebellion, and Its Extraordinary Trial, Unfolded | How the Amistad Rebellion, and Its Extraordinary Trial, Unfolded
In 1839, the captives who carried out the Amistad mutiny had no idea it would become the most famous slave ship rebellion in American history. Taken from Western Africa and shipped across the Atlantic to be sold to the highest bidder, they wanted only to ... |
151b88876d1f73f67248a6f554856109 | https://www.history.com/news/the-ancient-history-of-deviled-eggs | The Ancient History of Deviled Eggs | The Ancient History of Deviled Eggs
Serving deviled eggs at picnics and cocktail parties may have been de rigueur in post-World War II America, but these classic creamy concoctions did not originate in the United States. Although they weren’t prepared the same way, the roots of modern-day deviled eggs can be traced bac... |
aa5a5b3aaeae17d29191984e684c8c94 | https://www.history.com/news/the-angels-of-bataan-and-corregidor-70-years-later | The Angels of Bataan and Corregidor: 70 Years Later | The Angels of Bataan and Corregidor: 70 Years Later
Adventure in a Tropical Paradise To an Army or Navy nurse serving in the early 1940s, Manila must have looked like a bit of heaven on earth. The island posting offered palm trees, fine accommodations and few patients to attend. With plenty of free time, the nurses enj... |
e16d6f6026a800b55b85203b890587a9 | https://www.history.com/news/the-assassination-of-president-james-a-garfield | The Assassination of President James A. Garfield | The Assassination of President James A. Garfield
On the morning of July 2, 1881, James A. Garfield arrived at the Baltimore and Potomac train station for a much-needed holiday. Just four months had passed since the former Union general and Ohio congressman had been sworn in as the nation’s 20th president, but his term ... |
589cdf77b93155443a1d93621d55447b | https://www.history.com/news/the-assassination-of-president-william-mckinley | The Assassination of President William McKinley | The Assassination of President William McKinley
Buffalo’s Pan-American Exposition boasted everything from a nine-ton elephant to a 389-foot “Electric Tower” powered by nearby Niagara Falls, but few attractions had generated as much excitement as the two-day visit of President William McKinley. The 58-year-old was fresh... |
aec760c4a5969e08f2d463cbce44c465 | https://www.history.com/news/the-birth-of-illegal-immigration | The Birth of ‘Illegal’ Immigration | The Birth of ‘Illegal’ Immigration
Until the late 19th century, there wasn’t any such thing as “illegal” or “legal” immigration to the United States. That’s because before you can immigrate somewhere illegally, there has to be a law for you to break.
American immigration didn’t really begin until the late 1700s, when t... |
165ad247eb8f36a7e6137a8402d333c3 | https://www.history.com/news/the-birth-of-lincoln-logs | The Birth of Lincoln Logs | The Birth of Lincoln Logs
Growing up in Oak Park, Illinois, John Lloyd Wright spent hour after hour in the “wonderland playroom” designed by his father. Underneath a soaring barrel-vaulted ceiling, the second child of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright constructed his own wonders using just his imagination and a collec... |
7d048c858df518a2e769171784e5ea13 | https://www.history.com/news/the-birth-of-satellite-tv-50-years-ago | The Birth of Satellite TV, 50 Years Ago | The Birth of Satellite TV, 50 Years Ago
In homes across Rome, people barely touched their dinners. London’s pubs were packed, but bartenders served nary a drink. Throughout Europe, more than 100 million people huddled around television sets on the evening of July 23, 1962, to tune in to history. With Europeans watching... |
ae7220b70e586a28990b47e2b9e3f977 | https://www.history.com/news/the-birth-of-the-national-football-league | The Birth of the National Football League | The Birth of the National Football League
The 14 men huddled inside the Jordan and Hupmobile automobile showroom in downtown Canton, Ohio, on the night of September 17, 1920, were finally ready to strike a deal. They had come to Ralph Hay’s dealership not in search of a new set of wheels, however, but a new professiona... |
03e478d8bf8b9e77691a351981439948 | https://www.history.com/news/the-birth-of-the-pina-colada | The Birth of the Piña Colada | The Birth of the Piña Colada
One of the world’s most favorite mixed drinks, the piña colada, was born in Puerto Rico, but the identity of the bartender who first mixed up the iconic rum-based cocktail remains a point of contention. The Caribe Hilton, one of the premier luxury hotels in the Puerto Rican capital of San J... |
4ec62c2dfa6b3b92201c37d516278589 | https://www.history.com/news/the-birth-of-the-tuskegee-airmen | How the Tuskegee Airmen Became Pioneers of Black Military Aviation | How the Tuskegee Airmen Became Pioneers of Black Military Aviation
On March 19, 1941, the U.S. War Department established the 99th Pursuit Squadron, which, along with a few other squadrons formed later, became better known as the Tuskegee Airmen. Consisting of America’s first Black military pilots, these units confront... |
a91a82e2f30e625c4d2a0939c7cd22e3 | https://www.history.com/news/the-black-friday-gold-scandal-145-years-ago | The “Black Friday” Gold Scandal | The “Black Friday” Gold Scandal
If any pair of investors had the financial clout and lack of scruples required to engineer the bedlam of Black Friday, it was Jay Gould and Jim Fisk. As president and vice president of the Erie Railroad, the duo had won a reputation as two of Wall Street’s most ruthless financial masterm... |
55a9927454bf589e175cfadb424d4cec | https://www.history.com/news/the-black-sox-baseball-scandal-95-years-ago | The Black Sox Baseball Scandal | The Black Sox Baseball Scandal
Just how the “Big Fix” of 1919 played out remains a subject of considerable debate among baseball historians. Accounts differ, but the scheme may have first materialized a few weeks before the World Series, when White Sox first baseman C. Arnold “Chick” Gandil and a gambler named Joseph “... |
77496985b1750d8d64add3dfa113c295 | https://www.history.com/news/the-black-tom-explosion | In 1916, German Terrorists Launched an Attack on American Soil | In 1916, German Terrorists Launched an Attack on American Soil
Two years after the start of World War I, the greater New York region was a major hub of the American munitions industry, with “75 percent of all ammunition and armaments shipped from the United States to Europe went out within a radius of five miles of Cit... |
43a6dfd2ca9bcfc9df8a2a7d1fbe0a96 | https://www.history.com/news/the-brutal-history-of-anti-latino-discrimination-in-america | The Brutal History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America | The Brutal History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America
Olvera Street is a Los Angeles icon—a thriving Mexican market filled with colorful souvenirs, restaurants and remnants of the oldest buildings in Los Angeles. But though the bright tourist destination teems with visitors, few realize it was once the site of a ... |
5027b7e6f112f5b574c4ae5917d77e3f | https://www.history.com/news/the-burning-of-buffalo-200-years-ago | The Burning of Buffalo, 200 Years Ago | The Burning of Buffalo, 200 Years Ago
As winter’s icy grip clutched the American and Canadian towns nestled along the Niagara River, revenge burned inside the heart of British Lieutenant General Gordon Drummond. For days, Upper Canada’s lieutenant governor had been enraged about what American forces had done to one of ... |
2b41e763c8f7603d0e14689984510f0a | https://www.history.com/news/the-capture-of-the-charles-lindbergh-baby-kidnapper | Inside the Capture of the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapper | Inside the Capture of the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapper
Shortly before 10 a.m. on September 15, 1934, a dark blue Dodge sedan pulled up to the gasoline pumps at a Warner-Quinlan service station on Lexington Avenue in upper Manhattan. Manager Walter Lyle walked over to the car and filled it with five gallons of ethyl as the ... |
a1ad9769e2c0f1374a55c185fd3244f7 | https://www.history.com/news/the-cardiff-giant-fools-the-nation-145-years-ago | The Cardiff Giant Fools the Nation, 145 Years Ago | The Cardiff Giant Fools the Nation, 145 Years Ago
The seed for what would become one of the 19th century’s most elaborate hoaxes first planted itself in George Hull’s mind in 1867. A cigar maker by trade, Hull was also a staunch atheist and skeptic, and during a business trip to Iowa, he became locked in a theological ... |
a03bb42a8a332fee4aa2c8372a903c3f | https://www.history.com/news/the-catalonian-fight-for-independence-has-medieval-roots | The Catalonian Fight for Independence Has Medieval Roots | The Catalonian Fight for Independence Has Medieval Roots
For hundreds of years, Catalonians have thought of themselves as distinct from the rest of Spain. And while Catalonia’s contested 2017 vote for independence is radically new, it also isn’t the first time this northeast region of Spain—home to 7.5 million people, ... |
873e25bfab6abd08a886c65c39f7598b | https://www.history.com/news/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-160-years-ago | The Charge of the Light Brigade, 160 Years Ago | The Charge of the Light Brigade, 160 Years Ago
A major conflict of the 19th century, the Crimean War claimed at least 500,000 lives, more than even the American Civil War, and had a profound impact on such renowned personalities as British nurse Florence Nightingale and Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It got its start in a... |
9f9d3d269f94b5d0777b70c455825efc | https://www.history.com/news/the-chop-suey-story | The Chop Suey Story | The Chop Suey Story
Apple pie, fried chicken, hamburgers and chop suey. The last dish might seem out of place in that list of great American food classics, but we’d wager that a hot plate of chop suey is just about as American as it gets. Though once as ubiquitous as the egg roll, chop suey has nearly disappeared from ... |
7a4c9fa6ac3615d6a738903eacf783da | https://www.history.com/news/the-cia-at-70-how-going-undercover-has-gotten-harder | The CIA at 70: How Going Undercover Has Gotten Harder | The CIA at 70: How Going Undercover Has Gotten Harder
On April 21, 1963, three emaciated Americans walked out of Cuba’s LaCabana prison and flew to freedom, released in a prisoner exchange after being held for 949 days under brutal conditions. The three men were undercover CIA officers, who the Cuban authorities had ca... |
35ac0ef79a7ce19edc04a0c1ad212df5 | https://www.history.com/news/the-civil-war-doctor-who-proved-phantom-limb-pain-was-real | The Civil War Doctor Who Proved Phantom Limb Pain Was Real | The Civil War Doctor Who Proved Phantom Limb Pain Was Real
In July of 1866, a short story called “The Case of George Dedlow” appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. It’s remembered today as a vivid early description of “phantom limb” pain: Dedlow, the narrator, has lost both arms and both legs in the Civil War, yet he experi... |
b8d648b5583859cb8a9c8c344aea0468 | https://www.history.com/news/the-cold-war-race-to-build-the-concorde | The Cold War Race to Build the Concorde | The Cold War Race to Build the Concorde
Fifteen years after American test pilot Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier, a new front opened in the Cold War. With the Americans and Soviets still engaged in an all-out sprint to win the Space Race, both sides of the Iron Curtain launched a battle for supersonic suprema... |
e85cf83d84d1d1d28c12a8ce1410950a | https://www.history.com/news/the-colorful-history-of-shaved-ice | The Colorful History of Shaved Ice | The Colorful History of Shaved Ice
As the summer temperatures rise, so do our cravings for icy treats to beat the heat. Although they may seem like a simple combination of syrup and ice, there is a colorful history behind the many varieties of shaved ice Americans consume each summer. Get the low down on snow cones, sn... |
e23e645b5912db30ea8c1e9fdd1b9ba7 | https://www.history.com/news/the-con-man-who-invented-his-own-country | The Con Man Who Invented His Own Country | The Con Man Who Invented His Own Country
Beginning in 1821, the city of London was overrun with reports of a previously unknown nation nestled on the Caribbean coastline of what is now Honduras. Called Poyais, it was supposedly a lush and untapped paradise of fertile farmland, rolling hills and gold-rich streams. Its n... |
540c12339f17337927aa757a403cc298 | https://www.history.com/news/the-coolest-historical-discoveries-of-2017 | The Coolest Historical Discoveries of 2017 | The Coolest Historical Discoveries of 2017
Amazing discoveries came to light nearly every single month in 2017. Take a chronological journey back through 15 of the year’s most intriguing historical events, from archaeological finds and fascinating DNA evidence to newly uncovered documents that change our understanding ... |
e9393d348f0e639ce73893c79ab75f76 | https://www.history.com/news/the-costliest-day-in-seal-team-six-history | The Costliest Day in SEAL Team Six History | The Costliest Day in SEAL Team Six History
The Tangi Valley, located along the border between Afghanistan’s Wardak and Logar provinces some 80 miles southwest of Kabul, is a remote, inaccessible area known for its resistance to foreign invasion. Alexander the Great suffered heavy troop losses there during his campaign ... |
1af761b89b1d80cb5c861f69598cd916 | https://www.history.com/news/the-court-martial-of-paul-revere | The Court-Martial of Paul Revere | The Court-Martial of Paul Revere
Four years after Revere rode through the Massachusetts countryside warning that the British were on the march to Lexington, the war for American independence dragged on. In June 1779, the British seized the village of Castine, Maine, on the shores of Penobscot Bay with the intention of ... |
d195f97d1a843e574752912c022ea96c | https://www.history.com/news/the-criminalization-of-abortion-began-as-a-business-tactic?cmpid=email-hist-inside-history-2019-0516-05162019&om_rid=a5c05684deeced71f4f5e60641ae2297e798a5442a7ed66345b78d5bc371021b&om_mid=629693179&kx_EmailCampaignID=29949&kx_EmailCampaignName=email-hist-inside-history-2019-0516-05162019&k... | The Criminalization of Abortion Began as a Business Tactic | The Criminalization of Abortion Began as a Business Tactic
If you opened up the Leavenworth Times, a Kansas newspaper, in the 1850s, you’d see an ad for Sir James Clarke’s Female Pills. These pills, the advertiser bragged, were ideal for bringing on women’s periods—and were “particularly suited to married ladies.”
Then... |
9c172a4f90ee0b1c637e96aac4ea41cd | https://www.history.com/news/the-cuban-missile-crisis-pilot-whose-death-may-have-saved-millions | How the Death of a U.S. Air Force Pilot Prevented a Nuclear War | How the Death of a U.S. Air Force Pilot Prevented a Nuclear War
On October 27, 1962, Rudolf Anderson Jr. streaked through the stratosphere, 14 miles above a planet tied up in knots. Thirteen days before, the Air Force major had flown one of the first top-secret reconnaissance missions over Cuba that confirmed the exist... |
91afa57a0c0f79a430a65bdad76d27c0 | https://www.history.com/news/the-curious-history-of-leftovers | The Curious History of Leftovers | The Curious History of Leftovers
Whether you parcel them out for lunch the next day or squirrel them away with the best intentions until they’ve gone bad, leftovers are a mostly unremarkable reality of modern life. But leftovers have a story to tell, and their curious history tells us about changes in technology and in... |
9a1ad293706f52671c4a3413be2123be | https://www.history.com/news/the-dark-side-of-the-grimm-fairy-tales | The Dark Side of the Grimm Fairy Tales | The Dark Side of the Grimm Fairy Tales
Premarital sex In the original version of “Rapunzel,” published in 1812, a prince impregnates the title character after the two spend many days together living in “joy and pleasure.” “Hans Dumm,” meanwhile, is about a man who impregnates a princess simply by wishing it, and in “Th... |
c759f911c56ff2cf990d84fd411d2b9d | https://www.history.com/news/the-day-dylan-went-electric | The Day Dylan Went Electric | The Day Dylan Went Electric
By the summer of 1965, there were signs that Bob Dylan had entered a new phase of his career. The wild-haired troubadour had traded his everyman garb for sunglasses, trendy suit jackets and pointy-toed boots, and he was beginning to distance himself from his reputation as a protest singer an... |
b79cc8bea44b72ebacdb6ea08967052d | https://www.history.com/news/the-deadliest-earthquake-ever-recorded | The Deadliest Earthquake Ever Recorded | The Deadliest Earthquake Ever Recorded
Humans have been recording earthquakes for nearly 4,000 years. From the ones we know about, the deadliest by far happened in China in 1556 A.D. On January 23 of that year, a powerful quake rocked the province of Shaanxi as well as the neighboring province of Shanxi, killing an est... |
d5525834fb0c5b218b705a60a9c38f7d | https://www.history.com/news/the-delicious-history-of-the-yule-log | The Delicious History of the Yule Log | The Delicious History of the Yule Log
Christmas is almost here, and ‘tis the season for rich food traditions. Be it cookies and milk under the tree for Santa, candy canes or figgy puddings, it’s hard to think of a Christmas ritual that isn’t tied to food. And what proper bakery would go through a holiday season without... |
ba1b24c0377ea2171dcf9b9e0b91c58b | https://www.history.com/news/the-delusion-that-made-nobles-think-their-bodies-were-made-of-glass | The Delusion That Made Nobles Think Their Bodies Were Made of Glass | The Delusion That Made Nobles Think Their Bodies Were Made of Glass
One day in the late 1840s, Princess Alexandra Amelie, the 23-year-old daughter of the recently abdicated King Ludwig I of Bavaria, was making her way through the corridors of the family palace. Her relatives noticed that the obsessive, highly intellige... |
58955ae2c7ae2f5eff8238c54820f395 | https://www.history.com/news/the-drama-behind-100-years-of-washingtons-cherry-blossoms-2 | When Washington D.C.’s Iconic Cherry Blossoms Had to be Removed | When Washington D.C.’s Iconic Cherry Blossoms Had to be Removed
When globetrotter and travel writer Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore returned home to Washington, D.C., from a trip to Japan in 1885, she was smitten. Everything about the mysterious land in the Far East had enchanted the young woman, but the country’s flowering che... |
5437e85aaa0d1899912c9c90fc59e2ba | https://www.history.com/news/the-dutch-surrender-new-netherland-350-years-ago | The Dutch Surrender New Netherland | The Dutch Surrender New Netherland
1. An Englishman gave the colony its start. Hired by English merchants, explorer Henry Hudson twice entered the Arctic Ocean in an attempt to find a Northeast Passage to Asia, only to be stymied each time by sheets of sea ice. Though unable to gain additional backing in his home coun... |
0766ed35bfb17741a9c215e9b5b1e6e2 | https://www.history.com/news/the-end-of-an-era-india-shutters-its-telegraph-system | The End of an Era: India Shutters its Telegraph System | The End of an Era: India Shutters its Telegraph System
Telegraph services in India date back to 1850, when the first experimental telegraph line was established between Calcutta and Diamond Harbour. The British East India Company started using the telegraph a year later, and by 1854—when the system opened to the public... |
97e360e7265cb419b6d0a3f8139de3ea | https://www.history.com/news/the-epic-road-trip-that-inspired-the-interstate-highway-system | The Epic Road Trip That Inspired the Interstate Highway System | The Epic Road Trip That Inspired the Interstate Highway System
In the early summer of 1919, Dwight Eisenhower was in a funk. With his wife and infant son living 1,500 miles away in Denver, the 28-year-old lieutenant colonel stationed at Maryland’s Camp Meade wasted away his considerable boredom by playing bridge with h... |
661b7f06d0644cc17aa6406867bff539 | https://www.history.com/news/the-extraordinary-secret-life-of-dr-james-barry | The Extraordinary Secret Life of Dr. James Barry | The Extraordinary Secret Life of Dr. James Barry
Dr. James Barry was actually born Margaret Ann Bulky around 1789 in County Cork, Ireland, at a time when women were barred from most formal education, and were certainly not allowed to practice medicine. She was the second child of Jeremiah (a grocer) and Mary-Ann Bulky.... |
ba0a6a26547b8eba459608acdea8de33 | https://www.history.com/news/the-fall-of-fort-fisher-150-years-ago | The Fall of Fort Fisher, 150 Years Ago | The Fall of Fort Fisher, 150 Years Ago
In early 1865, Fort Fisher stood as an imposing symbol of Southern defiance. Situated at the tip of a small finger of land, the citadel lorded over the Atlantic entrance to the Cape Fear River leading to Wilmington, North Carolina. Its formidable artillery served as vital protecti... |
179a558a2b7a55ad19d6846dc4812db8 | https://www.history.com/news/the-fascinating-stories-behind-8-famous-photos | The Fascinating Stories Behind 8 Famous Photos | The Fascinating Stories Behind 8 Famous Photos
In 1936, photographer Dorothea Lange shot this image of a destitute woman, 32-year-old Florence Owens, with an infant and two other of her seven children at a pea-pickers camp in Nipomo, California. Lange took the photo, which came to be called “Migrant Mother,” for a proj... |
c20f7cd1043f12b731255647e4dfec84 | https://www.history.com/news/the-father-of-electric-christmas-tree-lights | The Father of Electric Christmas Tree Lights | The Father of Electric Christmas Tree Lights
As Christmas approached in the waning days of 1882, Edward Hibberd Johnson joined his fellow New Yorkers in decking the halls. Then as now, Yuletide traditions ran deep, and the 36-year-old once again undertook the annual ritual of decorating the parlor of his Manhattan home... |
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