Black Friday started in 1869, when greedy Wall Street men tried to corner the gold market and crashed the U.S. economy. In ...

On Saturday, December 14, an incredibly mysterious cloud bubbled out of the atmosphere along British Columbia’s west coast, just hours after a departing windstorm. Its UFO-like shape captivated those ...

WASHINGTON — The 25th Amendment was ratified by Congress in 1967 and lays out the procedures for replacing the president should he or she be incapacitated or deemed unable to do their job. The issue ...

History and Theory is the premier international journal in the field of theory and philosophy of history. Founded in 1960, History and Theory publishes articles, review essays, and summaries of books ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Although interest in them is clearly growing, most professional historians do not accept thought experiments as appropriate tools. Advocates ...

Millions of people around the world will pause on Monday, at least for a moment, to mark Earth Day. It's an annual event founded by people who hoped to stir activism to clean up and preserve a planet ...