These are some of the deadliest crowd crushes and stampedes ever recorded — and each one changed how the world thinks about ...

Throughout history, people trusted bizarre medical practices that today seem shocking and unsafe. From bloodletting and leech ...

Image Credit: Alexey Komarov - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0/Wiki Commons. Military history is filled with sleek fighters, massive tanks, and iconic weapons, but scattered among them are machines so bizarre ...

The War of 1812, more accurately described as the war of 1812, 1813, 1814 and 1815, was referred to by at least one chronicler as the war that few people at the time understood why it happened in the ...

In 1948, the Republican and Democratic parties did something unthinkable in today's climate of ferocious political animosity: They not only held their national conventions in the same city but also ...