The last time an Olympic gold medal was pure gold was in 1912.

In April 1912, a young Black woman named Clementine Barnabet confessed to murdering four families in and around Lafayette, Louisiana. The widespread news coverage at the time effectively branded her a ...

Built by industrialist James Deering, Vizcaya Museums and Gardens is a 45,000-square-foot Gilded Age mansion in Miami near ...

Today in History for Feb. 12: ...

Obituaries have memorialized the lives of a figure-skating trailblazer, a “Miracle on Ice” hockey player, a bobsledder who ...

From pigeon shooting to tug-of-war, here are 11 disciplines that were cut from the Olympics ...

She was just 9 weeks old when she was lowered to safety in a mail sack, surviving the worst maritime disaster in history.

Nearly 150 years to the day after it was lost, shipwreck divers discovered the remains of the Lac La Belle, a passenger ...

From America's richest man to one of the world's first film stars, some of the world’s richest people were lost to the waves, although not from the history books.