Every now and again, nature peels back its layers and dares us to look closer. Along the Mississippi River, mother nature is doing just that as its landscape is being stripped bare due to unprecedented droughts. As the world's fourth longest river, the muddy, churning body
The Boston Tea Party was a pivotal event that ignited the flames of the American Revolution. Tensions were brewing between Great Britain and its colonies in America; many were sick and tired of taxation without representation and other grievous issues. A dramatic confrontation was inevitable. The
Our history books are full of vivid lives Hollywood still hasn't told. For every Churchill or Cleopatra on film, there are scores of life-changing figures whose names have disappeared from textbooks, hidden in footnotes, going unnoticed. Yet these stories are movie gold: action, genius, revolution, passion,
America's earliest inhabitants had a history of changing sands and shattered assumptions. Textbooks once told it briefly: small bands of hunters walking across the Bering Land Bridge expanded slowly over a wilderness continent. But with each new archaeological discovery, this old narrative is being turned on
In human history, the impact of this day is frequently overlooked. On October 31, 2000, the Soyuz TM-31 launched and with it a crew bound for the International Space Station (ISS). Many say that this brought a new dawn of continuous human presence in space.
It’s not often that history literally emerges the ground. In 2020 a peaceful backyard in Munford, Alabama, became the site of an astonishing discovery: the remains of a Confederate soldier, buried and long forgotten for 155 years. The discovery ultimately reveal a story of loss,perserverance and
The number of secrets hidden in a military base is beyond comprehension, but this military base took things to a whole different level. Four perfectly aligned volcanoes were recently discovered on Simushir Island, one of which has been linked to a climate-altering eruption nearly two
Remarkable discoveries are made every day in some of the most beautiful and mysterious places around the world, but who would have thought that a farmer's field would be home to the next discovery? A Polish farmer’s field made headlines when they found a 600-year-old
Billy the Kid, also known as Henry McCarty, was born in 1859. He was perhaps the Wild West's most mythological personality despite his brief life. When he was shot at the age of 21, he had already made his mark as a fugitive, gunfighter, and
As the 20th century ended, the world was bracing for a digital apocalypse. The Y2K bug, a fairly mundane computer glitch, brought on widespread anxieties that led to global chaos. Planes were going to fall from the sky, banks were going to erase fortunes, and
