He hung out with Langston Hughes and wrote verses inspired by his Galveston roots, but he’s largely been forgotten. A new biography seeks to...
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Karl Kuby said he first learned Skat as a boy: "They were dropping bombs on the city. We were about 400 feet below the...
Long before film photos and videos of total solar eclipses, humans tried to capture the dramatic moments of darkness during daylight as best they...
"It's always been our goal to acquire as much land as we possibly can," said Jarred Howard. As CEO he hopes to break ground...
Nearly 300 children and their teachers died when a gas explosion ripped through a school in East Texas in 1937.
The lynching of Allen Brooks was celebrated by thousands on Main and Akard Street in 1910 and printed on postcards.
The speedboat sports a presidential seal and boasts three engines with a combined 900 horsepower.
Is it time to stop changing our clocks twice a year? Here's a state-by-state look at efforts to make daylight saving time permanent.
The church's archives hold 53 miles of shelving, housing everything from documents about Galileo to papers from various Vatican embassies around the world.
They were known as the Monuments Men, but they also included women. In recent years, the female members have been coming into the spotlight.
Archivists are hopeful that Romeo’s Deep Sea Vision is close to solving the puzzle — if for no other reason than to return attention...
The legendary daredevil succeeded in his jump across the Green Valley Race Track before his infamous attempt across Snake River Canyon
Col. Jesse Driskill put his life savings into building Austin’s most majestic hotel that bore his name, only to lose it all because of...
The statue, unveiled in 1914, features a bronze woman, crowned with olive leaves, standing on a 32-foot pedestal, and was designed to represent the...
"Quick action saved the jewel of our city, something very important to Atlanta," Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said.
An agency spokesperson claimed that the move had nothing to do with politics. Internal emails show otherwise.
Bidders spent more than $2.6 million on more than 160 items from Ted Lusher's collection.
The highest-selling bid item was a pair of leather swatches from the limousine President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in, which sold for $46,865.
"'Get over here!' he recalled President LBJ saying. "That was it, and I went."
The 35th president was one of Arizona's most famous, and simultaneously most unknown, health seekers of the 1930s.