So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

BARBARA CLARK SMITH is the curator of political history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...

The extraordinary event temporarily shut down equipment at the ALMA Observatory, and the snow reached the telescope's main ...

Jewish food, and especially Ashkenazic Jewish food, is slowly but steadily returning to the country, where many of the dishes ...

A man was out exploring North Carolina’s South River when he noticed something unusual bobbing in the water. It appeared to ...

Snakes have adapted to climb trees, skate across hot sand, and even swim through water — all without arms or legs. What’s ...

Debris from capsules and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S.

A new study suggests that a 9,000-year-old society in Catalhoyuk, a proto-city in southern Anatolia, may have established a ...

When Air and Space opened in 1976, Neil Armstrong’s first small step was fresh in our memories. With the nation’s 250th ...