Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy publicly apologized after restaurants refused to serve Black representatives of newly independent nations | Continue reading
New archaeological research suggests Homo sapiens used bows and arrows 54,000 years ago in present-day France | Continue reading
Until the items can be returned, the National Museum of Asian Art will keep them safe | Continue reading
Students, scientists and hobbyists are beginning to worry for their research as balloons are increasingly shot down | Continue reading
For just one night, two travelers will spend the night in the Palais Garnier’s Box of Honor | Continue reading
Descendants of art dealer Ambroise Vollard won a legal battle over works by Renoir, Cézanne and Gauguin | Continue reading
Ehrman Crest Elementary and Middle School is an innovative blend of children’s museum and classroom | Continue reading
The gigantic waves have been decimating coastlines since time immemorial. We ignore these prehistoric warnings at our own peril. | Continue reading
Now back in Phnom Penh, the 77 items may have been worn by Angkorian royalty | Continue reading
With "absolutely astonishing" amounts of fecal bacteria on city sidewalks, an expert recommends removing shoes before entering homes | Continue reading
The housing complex is the first discovery of its kind in the ruined Maya city | Continue reading
A high-pressure anticyclone is driving the situation, making it difficult to get around the carless city | Continue reading
Researchers discovered a punctured skull below the floor of a home in what is now Israel | Continue reading
In anticipation of future demand, several projects are underway in the region to produce this clean energy source | Continue reading
The Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative and its partners are aiding in the fight to protect the country's history and to document attempts to erase it | Continue reading
He is at least the third person cured in this way, which would likely be too risky for patients who don’t also have cancer | Continue reading
Decades before paleontology’s formal establishment, Black and Native Americans discovered—and correctly identified—millennia-old fossils | Continue reading
The restored bike, which a collector discovered in a Wisconsin barn, still has many of its original parts | Continue reading
A start-up created the plants to help combat the climate crisis, but they have so far only been tested in a lab setting | Continue reading
Collectors are now interested in buying the pieces of "Balloon Dog (Blue)" | Continue reading
The species faces several threats, but the 16-year-old mammal is “really good news for conservation” | Continue reading
The government hopes to boost tourism in the wake of the pandemic and civil unrest | Continue reading
The technique could help prevent infections in the millions of pounds of farmed catfish raised for human consumption | Continue reading
From ancient Greece to Shrove Tuesday celebrations, the sweet or savory flat cakes have long been a culinary staple | Continue reading
Mercury contamination in their Amazonian wintering grounds may play a role | Continue reading
For more than a century, New Orleans' Black residents have donned Native-inspired attire to celebrate Carnival | Continue reading
The Fat Tuesday tradition centered around eating fried, filled Polish pastries is celebrated across the Midwest, but especially in Chicago | Continue reading
A new book tells the definitive history of an Alabama community founded by survivors of the slave trade | Continue reading
Authorities, protesters and businesses came to an agreement to ensure the site's safety | Continue reading
Health department officials will establish a clinic for residents experiencing symptoms | Continue reading
The school educated free and enslaved Black children between 1760 and 1774 | Continue reading
The Codex Sassoon could break auction records, becoming the most valuable historical document ever sold | Continue reading
An FDA panel recommended the lifesaving nasal spray be distributed without a prescription | Continue reading
If the swaths of show-stopping poppies do appear, officials urge tourists to act responsibly | Continue reading
A sweeping book offers a provocative new history arguing that today's inequality can be traced back to the state's founding | Continue reading
Researchers sent a robot through 2,000 feet of ice to study the quickly receding ice shelf | Continue reading
The W.F.K. Travers painting hid in plain sight at a New Jersey town hall for 80 years before it was restored and brought back to Washington | Continue reading
The drug served as a quick-acting, temporary contraceptive with no noticeable side effects, researchers say | Continue reading
Archival evidence offers clues on the radicalization of the German siblings, who led a resistance movement known as the White Rose | Continue reading
A century ago, a Princeton mathematician created what would become a mainstay of the American playground | Continue reading
Thanks to a few horticulturalists with an eye for history, a garden lost to time peeks out from the creeping vines | Continue reading
The iconic building on the National Mall will be closed for five years as its interior gets a highly anticipated makeover | Continue reading
Archaeologists identified a West African spirit cache, a collection of items used to protect a home's occupants | Continue reading
The masterpiece once belonged to Johanna Margarete Stern, who died at Auschwitz in 1944 | Continue reading
A team of oceanographers filmed the video in 1986 during the first detailed study of the sunken ship | Continue reading
After removing parts of the artwork for safety, town officials quickly returned them to the site | Continue reading
An archaeologist accidentally came across the fossil that was preserved for 166 million years | Continue reading
The Space Launch System rocket produced crackling sounds 40 million times louder than a bowl of Rice Krispies cereal in milk, researchers say | Continue reading