Before the creation of Mickey Mouse and an entertainment empire, Walt Disney launched Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and reached his career low point News
Hiram Revels, an educator and minister who served as chaplain for a black regiment in the Civil War, became the first African American senator News
The Book of the City of Ladies: 15th century radical writer Christine de Pizan created a world where women were educated and highly valued News
An alligator, a cursing parrot, a pair of white mice, a badger, and opossums–the weirdest pets of U.S. presidents News
Scotland’s Isle of Skye reveals landmark dinosaur footprints dated to the Middle Jurassic era Archeology News
The Egtved Girl, found in Denmark in 1921, was a true Bronze Age traveler of high status, with a sense of fashion too News Archeology
An invitation to a 100 A.D. birthday party is among the Vindolanda tablets, oldest surviving Roman handwritten documents in Britain Archeology News
A Traitor’s Courage: In the Battle of Ridgefield, Benedict Arnold led the fight against the British on roads, fields, and beaches of Connecticut News
Gripping Titanic photo that reveals a burial at sea among the items offered at auction, with a Titanic menu also going on the block News
Lost for centuries, tantalizing clues exist to the location of the 5th century grave of Attila the Hun, “the Scourge of God” News