Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the Museum of Contemporary American Teenager is teaming up with American University to bring ...

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Much of Mackinac Island was designated as a national park in 1875, but it proved to be too expensive for the government to maintain, so it was transferred to the State of Michigan in 1895 ...

Between 2010 and 2021, authorities seized around five million individual sea horses worth more than $21 million ...

Titled “ The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910 ,” the show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City features ...

But now, the government of Peru has slashed the borders of the protected archaeological park that encompasses the Nazca Lines ...

Nearly 450 objects are heading to auction this month. The collection reveals the "Twin Peaks" director's restless creativity ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

In the 19th and 20th centuries, San Servolo and San Clemente housed patients suffering from pellagrous insanity, a condition ...

Summer will officially begin with this year's solstice on June 20. And on Wednesday, June 11, comes a "strawberry moon," the ...

Early reports suggest that an issue with the Japanese lander's sensors prevented it from sufficiently slowing down ...