Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the ...

It’s not an accident that the Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys all have names typically used for people (though they’re not all named ...

The two American innovators – Thomas Edison, the inventor of both the electric light bulb and the phonograph, and Henry Ford, pioneer of the automobile – were good friends who built their ...

Hello, and welcome back to This Week in History! Writing this column always feels like an adventure, especially after returning from nearly a two-month break.

A video offers new evidence suggesting the massive Eaton fire may have ignited at a Southern California Edison transmission tower just moments after flashes of blue and white light flared near the ...

With Taylor Swift singing songs about Clara Bow, audiences have turned their attention to the first days of cinema. But even ...

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Adam Thomas, known for his roles in Waterloo Road as Donte Charles and Emmerdale's Adam Barton, made his first screen appearance back in 2002 on BBC's Doctors. Since then, the 36-year-old actor ...

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The new method of building dwellings of small cost, recently announced by Mr. Thomas A. Edi son ... in what particulars his idea was novel, Mr. Edison said: "There is nothing par ticularly ...

Looking for new ways to get students reading and responding to nonfiction? Try these exercises for discussion, writing and speaking. By Peggy Dimock Lead poisoning can cause lower I.Q.s ...