It wasn't only Antonia de la Ascensión who made this strange error. Juan de Iturbe, who explored parts of California in 1615, ...

The wreck of a German steamship sunk at the end of World War II found by divers, with the crates on board the submerged vessel holding the precious furnishings of the lost 18th century Amber Room, ...

Each character in The Stone of Madness, including a mute man, an orphan and a woman proficient in witchcraft, has strengths ...

Estimates say that millions of dollars and tens of thousands of acres of land throughout New England were given to soldiers ...

After canceling its annual reenactment of a 1700s battle this summer, Bushy Run will host a new living history event at its ...

Examples include George Washington's soldiers, clergymen ... applicants must have a general understanding of Philadelphia's 18th century history, including the American Revolution.

Archeologists in St. Augustine, Florida have discovered evidence of an 18th-century British fort, known as a redoubt. The ...

people treading on the nation's flag; a flag, mind you, that serves as the very symbol of the American brand of freedom and liberty that our 18th-century soldiers went out to sea to defend. At the ...

The Revolutionary War artifacts tell the story of what General Cornwallis tried to destroy forever—but couldn’t erase.

As was the custom of 18th-century warfare, the American general positioned his best and most experienced troops, Continental soldiers from Maryland and Delaware, on his right flank. His Virginia ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...

Several soldiers had been killed in action in Gaza ... a book of Jewish wisdom written in the 18th century by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzatto. This was probably the first Jewish “self-help book ...