Both men solidified reputations as technological innovators, and on the HistoryExtra podcast, Professor Iwan Morus argues ...

How has white Christian nationalism changed since the Gilded Age? A religion scholar compares the Social Gospel with the ...

George Westinghouse was a natural inventor and tinkerer whose work literally helped illuminate the world at the end of the ...

Living in today's age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to ...

Fast-forward to the mid-19th century and Elizabeth Gregory, a New England ship captain's mother who made a wicked deep-fried dough that cleverly used her son's spice cargo of nutmeg and cinnamon ...

There weren't any laws against abortion in the U.S. until the 19th century—and as those laws grew more restrictive, many women sought abortions in secret. Surgeon George T. Strother, shown at ...