Willem of Orange becomes a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. 1591: Scottish schoolmaster Dr. John Fian ...

One of the regions where gold was mined in India was the Kolar district of Karnataka, founded by the Western Ganga dynasty in ...

For some people, the new year brings a resolution to refrain from drinking — if only for a month. In 2013, a British charity ...

Today in History for Feb. 15: ...

Robert Burns most probably wrote the famous poem “Address to a Haggis” in 1786 for a dinner at the house of his merchant friend Andrew Bruce. Burns, widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, ...

That’s Fort Verde State Historic Park for you, folks – Arizona’s best-kept secret hiding in plain sight. Nestled in the heart ...

When Seth Bullock arrived in Deadwood, South Dakota in August 1876, he planned to settle down and set up a hardware store ...

They escaped successfully from Austria in 1938, and they lived the rest of their lives in the U.S. Missing from the movie was ...

Gerald Norwood is a Wichita collector of "African Americana" — letters, legal papers and other artifacts of the black ...

Entering Auschwitz on Saturday, January 27, 1945, the Soviet soldiers struggled to make sense of what they saw. The camp’s liberation had not come cheaply: overcoming fierce resistance from German ...

The Irish Revolution (1916 -1923) precipitated the emigration of many members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and the Royal Irish Constabulary, which benefitted police forces of the newly federated ...

The New York Saint Patrick’s Day parade has a long, fascinating history. Boston claims the oldest celebrations of St. Patrick ...