In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

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

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

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 ...

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, leap across hot sand, and even swim through water — all without arms or legs. What’s ...

Originally from Poland, writer Olga Mecking now lives in the Netherlands. She is the author of Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing.