Discover pivotal events, influential figures, and narratives throughout History that have shaped civilizations and cultures across the globe.
Moore’s 1823 poem, A Visit From St. Nicholas, better known as “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,” created the iconic Santa Claus image we know today.
Freedom, transformation, and opportunity. These words and more demonstrated America’s Old West lure. Millions of Americans and emigrants headed West, hoping for better.
In the late 1800s Japan and China were embroiled in a bitter conflict over control of the Korean peninsula. Here’s how the first Sino-Japanese War began.
During the first Christmas of WWI, fighting on the Western Front briefly halted to celebrate the holiday. The event is known as the Christmas Truce.
Performed for the first time in Vienna in 1786, Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro seemed to foreshadow the imminent French Revolution.
Many of the most famous palaces in and around St. Petersburg were built by an Italian Baroque architect, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli. Here are 7 of his masterpieces.
African American inventors and their revolutionary ideas have shaped technology and society throughout history.
The United States would not have won the American Revolutionary War without Henry Knox, the father of United States artillery.