On January 16, 1877, the Newhall Post Office was officially established at the original town site of Newhall, the modern ...

YEARS AGOPurchase of the hot springs, known as the Devil’s Punch Bowl, by California Capital from the Klamath Development ...

Today in Music History for Jan. 28: In 1834, Sabine Baring-Gould, Anglican clergyman and author, was born. He published numerous books on history, biography, poetry and fiction. He also penned the ...

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History also shows that many of the fanciful engineering ideas for Greenland failed because they misjudged the island’s harsh ...

From a busy library at Southwestern to plans for an elaborate bronze table at Baptist Memorial Hospital, here's what was ...

Sheffield, who took office as Detroit mayor Jan. 1, is the latest Michigan woman to make political history since women won the right to vote in 1918.

Our picks for the books most likely to shape evangelical life, thought, and culture. One of the great pleasures of our work at Christianity Today is getting to spend so much time with books—with the ...

Gold and silver prices rose to record highs in early trading on Monday, spurred on by a confluence of a few different political events and economic factors, including tensions over the U.S. seizure of ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 21, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. An aerial view of Grant Park looking ...

On the University of Alabama campus, you’ll see one year referenced over and over: 1831. The school opened for business and began classes April 18, 1831. But it was actually founded a decade earlier ...

Lebanon’s civil war is a taboo subject. A group of Christians and Muslims is broaching it. Eight somber Muslims sat around white plastic tables on the gold-tinged red carpet of Sayyida Aisha Mosque in ...