Icon of Arctic Explorer, Matthew A. Henson, depicting a person in a winter parka.

CONFLICT IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES When the English landed at Jamestown, Virginia was in the middle of a seven-year drought and the worst...

Virginia Indian Traveled throughout Early Modern World Paquiquineo was a Virginia Indian who for nine years traveled throughout the...

Christmas Festivities Forbidden in17th Century American Colonies Christmas was once outlawed in Boston, and festive cheer was greeted...

Used Shark Teeth to Argue for Sedimentation in Rock Creation Niels Stensen (or, Nicolas Steno, 1638-1686) was a Danish anatomist who...

First use of Forensic Fingerprinting in Buenos Aries, Argentina Fingerprinting was first used as a means of perpetrator identification in...

Japanese temple geometry refers to the practice of carving verbal geometrical problems, theorems, and shapes into wooden tablets and...

Surgeon Developed General Anesthesia in Edo, Japan Hanaoka Seishu is the first person on record to have performed a successful surgery...

Hiram “Harry” Bingham IV (1903-1988) saved thousands of Jews and other "enemies" of Germany during the early years of WWII by using...

In the fall of 1896, early filmmaker and performance magician, Georges Méliès, was making a short movie on a Paris street. He developed a...

Almost two decades before the disaster of the LZ 189 Hindenburg Zeppelin (1937), Chicago witnessed the horrific destruction of the...

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) was born on a farm in Oswego, New York in November 1832. She attended Syracuse Medical College,...

The American Revolutionary War marked a period of great expansion in martime history. One of the most significant developments was the...

On 6 July 1881, a massive storm in Boone County, Iowa caused a flash flood. The flood washed out the support trestles for the train...

US Army General William “Billy” Mitchell (1879-1936) was the commander of the Army Air Services in WWI. After the war, Mitchell lobbied...