Ransom Place is all that remains of a once-sprawling neighborhood of homes and businesses built by Indianapolis' Black elite. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

NPR's Pien Huang talks with Victoria Christopher Murray, author of Harlem Rhapsody, a novel that serves as a love letter to the heart of Black creativity and possibility in the 1920s.

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

Historical accounts of foodborne illness date back to antiquity. The first suggested documented case of a known foodborne illness dates back to 323 B.C. According to doctors at the University of ...

A pottery firm whose site has a manufacturing history dating back more than 200 ... Royal Stafford, based at the Royal Overhouse Manufactory in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, called in administrators ...

Dr. Emil Charles Robles of the University of the Philippines-Diliman School of Archeology recently embarked on a mission to preserve Northern Samar’s historical sites. “By shedding light on ...

Your historic jug is a decorative focal point with ... The Doulton firm opened the Burslem branch in 1882 – successful due to employing great artists such as John Slater who became art director.

Google Maps users in the United States can expect ... generations of Americans celebrate the legacy of its heroes and historic assets." The U.S. Board on Geographic Names was set to begin updating ...

The Gulf of America and Mount McKinley will soon appear on Google Maps to reflect President Trump’s decision to rename the two topographical features, the company announced Monday. The ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week requiring the federal government to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on official maps, a move that could take ...

On Monday, Google said it would update its maps to display Gulf of America as ... and retribution that has little analogue in American history. Obamacare: The administration said it would ...

29 January 2010 Passing of politician Ram Niwas Mirdha from Rajasthan.