List of All Articles with Tag 'history'

Here’s how to pepper your next argument with Shakespearean insults.

Centuries later, Stede Bonnet’s motivations and actual aptitude for piracy remain unclear. But he still managed to make the history books—in his nightgown, no less.

Britney Spears’s songs, music videos, and live performances defined an era and inspired an entire generation of future pop stars.

The Great Depression was caused by the 1929 stock market crash and plunged the entire country into poverty … right? Maybe not.

They're the most famous chess pieces in history—but much of their story is still unknown

One of the paintings in the series was stolen from a museum and held for ransom. Another sold for a record-breaking price.

Pumpkin pie was actually born in Europe—until American colonists claimed it as their own in the late 18th century.

Louis Wain sketched, painted, and even animated cats throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Nuna supermountains were as tall as the Himalayas but over three times as long—and are now lost to time.

Chicago may have been named after an Indigenous term for stinky onions.

It’s often said the dreidel was a way Jewish people communicated their faith during ancient times of oppression. But the Hanukkah game is actually a lot more recent.

In the 1840s, Ada Lovelace wrote the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computer that existed only on paper.