Once one of the most difficult colors to recreate in paint, blue was only available to medieval artists, for example, by grinding up the prized stone known as lapis lazuli. By the 1900s, it was still ...

Americans will use anything but the metric system. So let's put that to its most logical conclusion and measure asteroids ...

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The George Washington Carver Museum’s ‘Black Folk Photography’ exhibit inspires guests to examine historical race relations ...

On the steps of the SC Statehouse sits a statue of George Washington, with a broken walking stick. How it broke, however, is ...

As agriculture expanded from the Carolinas into Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, early Southern farmers grew peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans. However, finding a profitable market for these ...

The virus killed at least 20 million people, wiped at least $10 trillion from the global economy and upended billions of ...

Officials at the University of Chicago Crime Lab's Policing Leadership Academy brought in members of storied improv theater The Second City to teach police leaders the skills found in improv.

Those men -- George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe -- and their sometimes complicated relationships are the focus… By Judy Woodruff, Stephanie Kotuby Arts Dec 25 ...