Appropriate for Valentine's Day, the New York Time...  ...two Danish academics who share an interest in the history of the ancient Near Eastern culture known as the...  ...re credited with groundbreaking research into the history of kissing. The historical and archaeological rec...

In the 1974 film The Godfather Part II, young Vito Andolini from Corleone, Sicily is processed by immigration officials at Ellis Island. A clerk who doesn't speak Italian writes his name down as "Vito Corleone", thus cha...

Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President of the United States in the very controversial 1876 election in which he squeezed into the White House after a razor-thin margin in the electoral college. He was fairly successfu...

The use of tamed elephants in human warfare dates back to at least the Sixth Century BC in what is now India and were used by the Chinese as late as the Fifteenth Century AD in what is now Vietnam. In the ancient Mediter...

The tiny Principality of Liechtenstein is, on a per capita basis, a very wealthy nation. But with a population of only 39,000 people, there are certain features common among larger nations that it lacks, such as airports...

Today, I ran across the above image on Twitter. It made me laugh because it reflects the historical reality of the industrial disparity between the United States and Japan during World War II. The Japanese Empire was doo...

While attending the Constitutional Convention in July of 1787, George Washington found the brutal summer heat unbearable and decided to purchase a "fan chair". This photo shows one owned by the museum collections of Moun...

John Wyatt Greenlee is known online as the Surpris...  ...e he holds a doctoral degree in medieval European history who specializes in discovering surprisingly novel...

Atlas Obscura explains that in Ming and Qing Dynas...  ...s field.-via Messy Nessy Chic | Photo: Clendening History of Medicine Library and Museum

Why do teeth decay? In our modern, enlightened tim...  ...Gnych, a British scholar who holds a doctorate in history from Swansea University, wrote a blog post in 201...