Three days before the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson purchased a thermometer from a ...

"The day never saw a more miserable creature when the sun rose that next morning," the future president said, according to ...

UVU professor Rick Griffin knows Washington; he’s spent the past decade researching material for a book about our first ...

The first air guns/rifles from the 1580s were mainly used by wealthy sportsmen for hunting, but sometimes also for warfare.

As another Presidents’ Day has come and gone, it gives us a chance to reflect on the greatest men to ever lead our nation.

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has introduced a bill to add President Donald Trump to Mount Rushmore. The proposal aims to ...

The movement was civil and voting rights for Black Americans, and the subject was Vivian. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called him the greatest preacher he had ever seen. President Barack Obama ...

Long before modern medicine, women around the globe relied on natural fixes for their most bothersome menopause symptoms.

Insider threats have been around for a long time: the C.I.A. mole toiling quietly in the Soviet government office, the Boeing ...

We are stuck with a system that offers equal efficiency to those who wish to exercise the legitimate functions of government ...

Not all $2 bills are valuable (beyond their $2 face value) but some of them could be worth thousands. For example, a $2 Federal Reserve Star Note, printed in 2003 with a low single-digit serial number ...

When the United States Mint was created in 1792, one of the first coins it made was the one-cent coin. The image on the first ...