A team of 14 explorers will depart for Nikumaroro, a remote speck of an island halfway between Australia and Hawaii on Nov. 4 ...

The decades following the American Civil War were a time of many firsts. On Dec. 31, 1879, in Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas ...

A nonprofit that publishes classroom materials promoting political violence has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in ...

The Trump Administration updated the White House website to tout plans for the new ballroom—and to troll Democrats.

Dennis Chestnut remembers the day in 1968 when his mother called him on the communal pay phone of his college dormitory.

We have a lot of evidence to go on, and I believe the chances are 9 out of 10 that it’s Amelia’s plane, but we won’t know ...

The two Texas Senators trying to mandate the relocation of Discovery from the Smithsonian Institution's Udvar-Hazy Center in ...

The CEO of the nonprofit managing the Alamo resigned after a powerful Republican state official criticized her publicly, ...

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is drawing blowback and praise for arguing that a Canadian government ...

Texas legislators accused the Smithsonian of potentially violating anti-lobbying laws. The Smithsonian told Congress moving ...

A volcano that has been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years could be gearing up for a massive explosion, according to ...