History isn’t just about memorizing dates and battles — it’s filled with moments so strange they’d make fiction writers blush. From emperors who thought they were made of glass to military bears ...

Do you know the name Margaret Abbott? Do you know she's the first woman to win an individual gold medal in the Olympics, and the first-ever woman to a gold medal in golf? It happened in 1900, in Paris ...

The War of 1812, more accurately described as the war of 1812, 1813, 1814 and 1815, was referred to by at least one chronicler as the war that few people at the time understood why it happened in the ...

The year 1884 was an important one in the nation’s history. Peace had settled on the land. The wounds from the Civil War had mostly healed, albeit with some scabbing, and the guns were not to sound ...