Fun fact: US president George Washington would never have known the above. He died in 1799, decades before paleontologist Richard Owen first coined the term "dinosaur" in 1842. Related: If You Lived ...

It’s hard to pinpoint when humans started recording and sharing knowledge of the past. But it’s estimated that they started early on. At first, there were cave paintings, and then language, which ...

We’ve all grown up hearing tales that started as “That couldn’t possibly be true…” and later morphed into “Wait — it was true?” These are the stories buffeted by time, legend and exaggeration—but ...

It's important that we keep being interested in history. Even if we laughed it off, one of the most viral memes of this summer was quite poignant: we do live in the context of all in which we live and ...

Let's talk about our great state of Michigan for a bit. National Michigan Day is celebrated every year on January 18. States are celebrated by the order they entered the union, starting in July, ...