One of the oldest family-owned department stores in the UK is celebrating its 250th birthday. Hatchers in Taunton was founded in April 1775, beginning its life as a drapery business. Today its owners ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Greg Gorrell not only writes about his time in Vietnam, but he also tells his story about struggles after returning home to ...

Success wasn't guaranteed, but the Timberwolves knew they had to take a chance on Georgia guard Anthony Edwards.

A teenager in Lexington, Mass., has for years been teaching people about the battle that started the war 250 years ago this ...

If you loved "Hidden Figures" and "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," check out these other great books on women doing ...

As the nation nears the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War, the Smithsonian-affiliated Senator John ...

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of VE Day next month, our exclusive two-part serial featuring the correspondence between a ...

A collection of indelible photographs, maps and “intimate guides” from 1807 to 1940 went beyond extolling the virtues of the ...

A new historical book about Madison, “Portrait of the Rose City: A History of Madison, New Jersey” was published on Thursday, ...

Tributes have poured in for a blind Scottish historian and author who died aged 87 after a short illness. Dr Fred Reid, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new book, The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon, explores the untold story behind one of Chicago's ...