Following Republican victories in the 1930 midterms, Democrats gained control of the House of Representatives after ...

Annabelle is one of the world's most famous supposedly haunted dolls, but the real-life version looks nothing like the ...

The first atomic bomb is detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The successful test paved the way for the ...

The Civil War was the deadliest of all American wars. No one disagrees with that. But how many died has long been a matter of debate. For more than a century, the most-accepted estimate was about ...

The Persian Gulf War, also known as Operation Desert Storm or the First Gulf War, began in 1991 after President Saddam Hussein of Iraq ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in ...

Halloween may be a secular affair today, dominated by candy, costumes and trick-or-treating, but the holiday is rooted in an annual Celtic pagan festival called Samhain (pronounced "SAH-wane") that ...

A child’s education was anything but “standardized” during America’s colonial era, which spanned most of the 17th and 18th centuries. The modern institution of the public school—a free, tax-supported ...

The story of the Trojan Horse has been celebrated for thousands of years as a tale of cunning deception: Frustrated after 10 years of war, ancient Greek warriors hid inside a large hollow wooden horse ...

On the first Monday in September, many Americans celebrate Labor Day with parties or barbecues. Others mark Labor Day weekend, often considered the last weekend of summer, with a vacation or a trip to ...

It was 2004, the day after Christmas, and thousands of European and American tourists had flocked to the beaches of Thailand, Sri Lanka and Indonesia to escape the winter chill in a tropical paradise.

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 argued over a lot of things, but one of their biggest debates was over how the United States should elect its president. Some among the Founding ...

Big dresses. Choreographed dances. A church ceremony and a formal party. A ritual changing of shoes. These are some of the most recognizable parts of a quinceañera celebration, one of Latin America's ...