A new book explores how smuggling and piracy were a financial foundation of colonial American society.

How does today's news compare to the information technology that was around when the last Pope resigned in 1415?

A new documentary looks at the life and work of Henry Ford, one of the greatest innovators in U.S. history.

As the USS Iowa opens in San Pedro, Calif., a look at what it takes to run a successful war ship museum.

George Washington's ancestral home in England, Washington Old Hall, is an historic estate which might be the only place in the U.K. that throws a party for our Independence Day.

Before there was Marc Zuckerberg, before there was Steve Jobs, before there was Bill Gates, there was Alan Turing. He conceived of the idea of the universal computer.

Poor, poor Ronald Wayne

Historian Nancy Koehn describes the origins of Black Friday — before it became known as a retail bonanza.

The story of the war in real time, 140 characters at a time.

Special thanks to LA comedian and Office star Rainn Wilson for pointing us to this amazing video explainer from the BBC via his hilarious Twitt…