When we think of the invention of motion pictures, most minds jump to Thomas Edison or the Lumière brothers. Their names are etched into the history of…

The French Revolution wasn’t just a political and social upheaval it was a total reimagining of society. In the spirit of liberty, equality, and rationality, the revolutionaries…

In 1932, amid the dusty ruins of an ancient hilltop settlement in northern South Africa, a team of archaeologists made a quiet but astonishing discovery a small…

It’s easy to overlook the everyday mailbox a small, metal box on a post, sitting quietly at the edge of the yard. We stuff it with letters,…

In 87 AD, Roman soldiers made a brilliant tactical decision as they retreated from a fortress in what is now Scotland. Before leaving, they buried 875,000 iron…

In the summer of 1920, Boston was gripped by financial fever. Thousands of people, from working-class laborers to white-collar professionals, were handing over their life savings to…

When Louis Braille lost his eyesight at the age of three, the world became a much darker and more difficult place. In the early 1800s, blindness often…

Kleopatra Selene II, born in 40 BCE, was the daughter of two of the most iconic figures in ancient history Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh of Egypt,…

In a time when being a woman, and particularly a Black woman, meant limited opportunity, Sarah Breedlove defied every expectation. Born in 1867 in Delta, Louisiana, to…