When Floyd Collins ventured into Sand Cave in Kentucky on Jan. 30, 1925, he was searching for the next big attraction. But he ...

The authorship of The Associated Press’s renowned “napalm girl” photograph is being called into question in the new ...

A scholar of medieval Christianity explores the history of Christians who spoke out, unafraid to risk official censure or ...

The year 2025 puts us one quarter of the way through the 21st century. We'll spend the year looking back at some of the amazing advances we've experienced. In this episode: privatized space travel.

A "unique and irreplaceable" record of photos of 20th Century Exeter is being saved from destruction with a £178,000 National ...

A new Holocaust Museum is being built in Greece, in honour of the 60,000 Jews from the port city of Thessaloniki who were ...

Coins from the German Occupation of Guernsey, Victorian times, and the 20th century come to light during a pub refurbishment, offering a glimpse into the past.

The Auschwitz martyrs’ legacy of holiness continues to be a source of inspiration for Catholics worldwide. Here are several of those martyrs and their stories, listed by religious order: St. Teresa ...

From white wedding dresses to Christmas trees, Victoria’s personal choices became global trends—long before the age of social ...

An advert for Bayer's Aspirin from the early 20th century Bayer had the aspirin trademark and its US assets seized during World War One, whilst “American” Merck (now Merck & Co. in the US or ...

Trump’s “America First” philosophy is often described as a return to the kind of isolationism that prevailed between the two world wars. But that’s not quite accurate. He wants to stride the global ...

In southwestern Australia less than half the normal rain fell during the critical May–October ... These were not broken until the 21st century. In 1914 New South Wales saw its warmest year of the 20th ...