It is hard to imagine the United States without the Constitution. This short document, drafted in 1787 in a hot and stuffy ...

In the wrap-up of “Objects of Wonder,” hundreds of the museum’s most treasured specimens are returning to the collection ...

To boost the iconic queen conch's population, researchers are relocating the heat-stressed creatures to cooler, deeper waters ...

Experts have confirmed that the image of "Knight, Death and the Devil" is a real master engraving by the renowned German ...

Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...

His American art collection now resides at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, which opened as the Freer Gallery ...

The discoveries include sharks, shorebirds, mammals and saber-toothed salmon, with the oldest remains dating to almost nine ...

At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, ...

Through a convening of educators and community organizations, new education resources for students spotlight local histories ...

Due to a drought in Eastern Europe, the scuttled German vessels are reemerging 80 years after they disappeared beneath the river's surface ...

The annual award ceremony featured costumes, songs and paper airplanes as scientists recognized comedic research across ten ...

The artist's cityscapes, once dismissed as too masculine, would later influence the floral artworks that became central to ...