Between 1899 and 1951, J. C. Leyendecker drew 322 covers for the Saturday Evening Post, created thousands of advertisements for companies like Kellogg's and Ivory Soap, and invented the idealized ...

America’s involvement in the Vietnam War was contentious, to say the least. Despite U.S. President Richard Nixon calling on the so-called “silent majority” who supported the country’s actions in ...

A group of university students working in the Netherlands have located a unique ancient Roman military camp, one that existed beyond the northern border of the Roman Empire. The students are studying ...

New York City is always changing. From decade to decade, the city seems to transform, sloughing off its old skin and emerging as something entirely new. This was especially true in 1950s New York City ...

The rock and roll scene in the late 1960s was undoubtedly a decade-defining movement. Beatlemania was in full force, and the Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience were ...

Mandy Smith was just 13 years old when she caught the eye of Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman — a man who was 34 years her senior. Their controversial relationship eventually made headlines across ...

In 1903, a strange mix-up occurred at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. When a man named Will West arrived at the prison, the clerk on duty was certain he had processed him before.

Archaeologists have unearthed a stunning, first-of-its-kind artifact from an ancient tomb in Gyeongju, South Korea. During excavations at a burial dubbed Tomb 120-2, they came across a 1,400-year-old ...

In the 1970s and ’80s, Burmese pythons were introduced to Florida via the exotic pet trade. Released into the wild by overwhelmed pet owners, the massive snakes have since wreaked havoc on the local ...

At that point, anger in Paris had reached a pinnacle. After years of supporting the American Revolution, France was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. Bad harvests, droughts, and rising food prices ...

Archaeologists in Spain recently unearthed a rock that somewhat resembled a human face, especially because of a small red dot where the nose would be. Now, the story behind that dot has left ...

Archeologists have discovered the remains of an Ancient Egyptian woman that likely died just before childbirth. The discovery was announced by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities via Facebook on ...