Aaron G. Fountain Jr. is a historian with a PhD in history from Indiana University. He is the author of High School Students ...

Paige Madison is a science writer specializing in human origins. She holds a PhD in the history of science, and her work has ...

During Operation Desert Storm, Rodriguez prepares for takeoff in the cockpit of an F-15C, serial number 85‑0114, which is now ...

Beneath the waters of the Great Lakes, thousands of shipwrecks, hulking carcasses of a bygone era, have been hiding for ...

Erin Gifford is a travel writer based in Virginia. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Afar, USA Today, Travel ...

The Battle of Takur Ghar began three days into Operation Anaconda—an attempt by thousands of U.S. and allied troops to ...

Half a century ago, on an unseasonably warm fall day, the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald set off from the western edge of Lake Superior with a cargo full of iron ore. Within hours, a ferocious storm ...

Carley D. Thornell is a Massachusetts-based writer specializing in travel. Her work has appeared in Business Insider, USA ...

A train wreck that caused the death of more than a dozen commuters near the turn of the 20th century was the impetus behind a ...

Best Friends Animal Society has a sprawling campus in the canyons of Utah, but its influence has grown to reach almost every ...

The bucolic river is famous for reversing its current a few times each day. Now, an ongoing cleanup effort is reversing ...