In 1935, dozens of rhesus macaques absconded from Frank Buck's Long Island menagerie. Nearly a century later, 43 members of the same species broke out of a South Carolina research facility ...

Experts are removing layers of old varnish from "The Night Watch," which have yellowed with time, as museumgoers look on ...

Camp Century was built in 1959 and advertised as a U.S. research site—but it also hosted a clandestine missile facility ...

Through revolution and war, Touro Synagogue, which opened in Newport, Rhode Island, on this day in 1763, has long been a ...

A "corrupt bargain" that delivered John Quincy Adams the presidency ended the Era of Good Feelings and prompted a new period ...

Three years before World War II, on this day in 1936, an inferno marked the symbolic end of the global hegemony of the ...

The yuletide decorations are up: a trimmed tree, jolly stockings on the mantel and—wait, what’s that white-berried weed hanging from the ceiling? And why are people so amorous when they find ...

Creative circuitry and rolling robots make up this year’s top toys for teaching kids to love science, technology, engineering ...

Chef Martina Breznik assembles a dish. Francesco Lastrucci The hayrack guesthouse. Francesco Lastrucci Home to five generations, Hisa Raduha is very much a family affair. Filip, Breznik’s son ...

At the oldest public art museum in the United States, miniatures, glassware and other intricately created works transport visitors around the world Amy Crawford Contributing Writer When Hamid ...

The architectural wonder re-established the designer as a titan of his generation and shifted the public’s view of Modernism from a foreign movement to a part of the American character Michael ...

Held on this day in 1895, the 54-mile round trip took more than ten hours and involved accidents with streetcars, horses and ...