Imperial Japan sent its first wave of kamikaze suicide planes to the U.S. Navy off the coast of the Philippines on Oct. 25, ...

October 31st is a date that holds a rich tapestry of significant events from around the world. One of the most notable events on October 31st occurred ...

The Statue of Liberty was officially revealed to the world Oct. 28, 1886, in New York City's harbor, which affirmed the ...

The transcontinental telegraph was completed on Oct. 24, 1861, making possible instant communication between the coasts ...

ON THIS DAY IN 1884, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reporte­d, “Young Mr. [Theodore] Roosevelt, who recently quitted his cattle ranch in Dakota, alighted last Saturday night in the Brooklyn Rink ...

In a different realm, October 21, 1978, saw the founding of the first national park in the world, Yellowstone National Park, ...

Where did Halloween come from and how did it end up like this? The real history of Halloween is far more complicated than ...

A museum in Virginia has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children.

A new book, Remembering Peasants, takes a close look at Europe’s vanished peasantry. Mixing history, personal memoir, and ...

Diwali is one of the most popular festivals of India, marked by joy and fervour. Apart from the celebrations, this day has a ...

The xeroplate is fastened to the cylinder of a special rotary printing press. In this, the image plate first passes under a ...

I love the feel of paper in my hands and actually turning the page when I read a book. In an era when there is almost nothing we can’t receive instantly on a ...