American electrical engineer Elisha Gray was one of the co-founders of the Western Electric Manufacturing Company and also developed the telephone prototype in ...
On July 11, 1804, former secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton met Vice President Aaron Burr at Weehawken, New Jersey for one fateful duel. The two promi...
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It's been a mystery that has confounded history enthusiasts for years.
What happened to Amelia Earhart?
This month, on t...
Roger Sherman was a lawyer and statesman during colonial America. He is the only person to have signed all four of the United States’ great state papers: the Co...
Today in the United States, Independence Day is celebrated on July 4th, and the day is commonly called the Fourth of July. In 1941, it was made a federal holida...
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Jim Bridger was the original western mountain man to the fullest.
His proprioceptive abilities in navigating the myste...
Usually, on this site, we post some pretty serious things: biographies, theories, archaeological news, and answers to some of history's puzzling questions, like...
"Ideology, expressed in material form and through aspects of public rituals and public ceremonial structures, played a significant role in the development of ...
The first African American to serve on the U.S. Congress was Hiram Rhodes Revels. He was elected to the United States Senate from Mississippi in 1870 until 1871...
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was President Woodrow Wilson’s second wife and from 1915-1921, she was the First Lady of the United States. When her husband suffered ...
