To mock the Communist regime, Czechoslovak kids made illicit video games supporting protests.

Fossilized footprints reveal the interactions of people and animals over 10,000 years ago in White Sands National Park.

After being stiffed by the Soviets for a job he did in 1967, Wally Edwards had one of their ships seized to extract his money in 1980.

I can hardly remember what was happening in January of this year, much less what I was doing when I was an 18-year-old. We do have a good sense of what Jane Austen was up to, though.

“Dark Archives,” by Megan Rosenbloom, a librarian at U.C.L.A., traces the history of the controversial practice and considers what we should do with such books today.

For more than a century, people were taken from their homelands and exhibited in human zoos. They were displayed alongside animals. This little known and deeply disturbing part of colonial history played an important part in the development of modern racism.

Carved artifacts excavated from Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge suggest now-extinct hominids made barbed bone points long before humans did, researchers say.

Cities used to be literally full of crap.

France saw a buying frenzy in the months after the first pandemic lockdown, but it may not be enough to make up for the lost activity that preceded it.

Some 13,000 years ago, an adult carrying in a child walked 1.5km in mud at great speed in the presence of hungry predators.

It is the first time in 19 years that a complete copy of the rare book has gone under the hammer.

How a small, family-owned electronics company came to control 97% of the ice cream truck music market.

Professors are starting to orient Charles Darwin within a rich history of people from all cultures who have grappled with the mechanisms of life.

A new theory explains the mysterious explosion in Siberia, scientists say, suggesting Earth barely escaped a far greater catastrophe.

'Driving While Black,' a documentary on PBS by Gretchen Soren and Ric Burns, is a stunning film about transportation and racism in the United States.

Take a ride on the internet time machine.

In 1950, Guthrie moved into an apartment at Beach Haven, a cluster of buildings in Brooklyn. His landlord was Donald Trump’s father.

Next month will mark 50 years of television that aims to educate and unite.

When a shipload of puritan colonisers set sail for the New World, maritime science and navigation were fairly unsophisticated.

The 27 wooden coffins are said to have lain undisturbed inside a well at an ancient necropolis.