Banished baseball great Pete Rose has died. The longtime Cincinnati Red was the career hits leader and fallen idol who ...

Bishop Nestor of Alaska and the Aleutians commissioned the two-story Victorian home in 1882. On an ill-fated Alaska voyage, ...

As Nigeria marks its 64th Independence Day anniversary, ABIODUN ADEWALE spotlights some moments in the last year that add to ...

Nigeria was granted independence on October 1, 1960. In a few hours from now, Nigeria will turn 64. Ahead of the big day, ...

Ford saves its best work for its muscle cars and race cars, and these are some of the fastest Fords ever made.

Hello, and welcome back to This Week in History! A few issues ago, I started a new format for the column, calling it “Zooming in.” The premise is simple: Rather than skimming over history, I’ll do ...

There are 40 days left in the election and it is currently too close for anyone to confidently call whether it will be Harris ...

The World of Carl Sandburg, if not everybody's world, has long been a popular one. Over the years Sandburg, who was first a poet of the pioneering Midwest school, has sifted down into ...

Only half of the current 32 National Football League teams retain their original nicknames and cities as we dive into the ...

On Sept. 28, 1941, the last day of Major League Baseball’s regular season, the Boston Red Sox’s Ted Williams gets six hits in ...

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. And when gas prices shoot up, people start looking into alternatives.

Today marks the 60th anniversary of The Beach Boys' introduction to the world as they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.