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Historic Ebenezer Creek Property Protected for Future Greenway

Dec. 9 marks 150 years since the tragic Ebenezer Creek crossing that led to the “40 acres” proclamation. The site of that event has been permanently protected and will become part of a planned public greenway, natural area, and park connecting to the Savannah River.

The Divorce Surge Is Over, but the Myth Lives On

The high divorce rate of the late 1970s and early 1980s is starting to look like a historical anomaly, not a trend.

Most American presidents destined to fade from nation’s memory, study suggests

Most are destined to be forgotten within 50-to-100 years of their serving as president.

Iconic Cold War Spyplane May Get A Drone Makeover

Based at times in Area 51, the U-2 spyplane tested the very limits of human endurance and Cold War technology when it first flew in 1955.

Chile Is Still Littered with a Dictator's Unexploded Landmines

Pinochet, convinced that a ground invasion was imminent, purchased landmines from the US and Belgium and buried them at a feverish pace.

A Long-Sought Fugitive Nazi Is Said to Have Died Four Years Ago in Syria

Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann’s “right-hand man” and responsible for the deportation of 128,500 Jews to death camps, died at least four years ago, Efraim Zuroff said.

Holocaust survivor reunited with childhood friend who saved her from Nazis

It was the first time the women has seen each other since Weglowski’s family hid Wexler on their farm to escape German soldiers in 1942.

What goes beneath clothes? Canton museum explores history of women’s undergarments

Visitors will see all manner of devices that have concealed, supported and sucked in parts of the female anatomy over the last couple of centuries.

US cathedral may become museum to the slave trade

The museum at the shuttered Cathedral of St. John, a church where slaves once worshipped, would explore how the church benefited from the trade and helped bring it to an end, said Bishop Nicholas Knisely of the Diocese of Rhode Island.

Japan Paper Regrets Use of Term 'Sex Slave'

It said non-Japanese people have difficulty understanding the term "comfort women," used in Japan to describe the women.

How the World’s First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap

The ENIAC was a 27-ton, 1,800-square-foot bundle of vacuum tubes and diodes that was arguably the world’s first true computer.

America’s Oldest Political Insult

Presidents have always been ‘kings’ to their enemies.

Scientists may be cracking mystery of big 1872 earthquake

Geologists may be close to cracking one of the biggest seismological mysteries in the Pacific Northwest: the origin of a powerful earthquake that rattled seven states and provinces when Ulysses S. Grant was president.

What happened to England's abandoned mansions?

Evocative of an aristocratic and glorious history, there are many mansions around England that now stand empty or abandoned. These impressive buildings may look lonely and forlorn but behind every mansion is a story.

Prehistoric conflict hastened human brain’s capacity for collaboration, study says

Warfare not only hastened human technological progress and vast social and political changes, but may have greatly contributed to the evolutionary emergence of humans’ high intelligence and ability to work together toward common goals.

Scramble for Africa 130 years on

130 years ago, Western countries met to discuss the future of Africa in what is known as the Berlin Conference. The result of the meeting saw the countries distributing portions of the continent to come under their control.

Japanese Unearth Remains, and Their Nation’s Past, on Guadalcanal

The young have joined the old  in looking for the remains of missing Japanese soldiers at the site of one of World War II’s most ferocious battles.

Stalin, Father of Ukraine?

Yes, he was a murderous tyrant, but he was also a father of today’s Ukraine.

Did Mrs. Bixby get a bad rap?

by Judith Giesberg

With all the rumors circulating about her while she mourned the loss of her sons and tried to take care of her surviving children and a grandchild, Lydia Bixby might have welcomed the anonymity that finally came to her at the end of her life. But does she still deserve it today?

It's the 150th anniversary of one of the most appalling massacres of Indians ever

by Ned Blackhawk

In terms of sheer horror, few events matched Sand Creek. Pregnant women were murdered and scalped, genitalia were paraded as trophies.