Watch a Super Silly ‘50s Band-Aid Commercial
The 1950s commercial touts Band-Aids new "Super Stick" technology and demonstrates its efficacy with an unexpected prop.
The 1950s commercial touts Band-Aids new "Super Stick" technology and demonstrates its efficacy with an unexpected prop.
During the 17th and 18th centuries, people knew electricity was the next big thing—they just weren’t sure how to use it. So they tried it all.
This weekend, the New York Transit Museum is dusting off vintage subway cars from the early 20th century so 21st century New Yorkers can ride the rails to Coney Island.
In the summer of 1849, a magician billed as "The Unparalleled Necromancer" gave an unforgettable performance—made even more memorable by the fact that he was actually Charles Dickens.
Thaddeus Marshall owned the famous wheelbarrow at the center of poet William Carlos Williams' most famous work. Nearly a century later, he's finally getting his proper due.
If you’ve ever lost an argument with a meter maid or gotten a ticket 30 seconds after the timer expired, direct your anger toward Carl C. Magee.
The story of how department stores taught us about language and prestige.
150 years ago, P.T. Barnum's museum of curiosities burned down—over and over again.
"I had to let myself be shown around like a prize ox...it's a miracle I endured it."
A look through the archives of the magazine reveals advice for photographing by dogsled and taking new-fangled color portraits.
Though some of the founding father’s rules are in need of a fresh coat of paint for modern life, these 12 are as appropriate as ever.
How German POWs populated small-town America during World War II.
Impress the locals during your next visit to the City in a Forest.
Vaughn Meader skyrocketed to stardom with his impersonation of John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s, even winning a Grammy. But it all came crashing down the day the President was assassinated.
Ten revealing true stories of how our nation’s greatest romantics in chief put a ring on it.
The Centennial Light in Livermore, California, has been burning since 1901.
What we know about the "Ju-Jitsu Girl" of England.
In the summer of 1982, Michael Fagan managed to sneak past Buckingham Palace security and find his way into Queen Elizabeth II's bedroom while she slept. It wasn't his first royal break-in.
Remember how scared we were of satanic cults, Y2K, and nuclear war? (Okay, we're still scared of nuclear war.)
The gruesome way the author of Frankenstein coped with her husband's death.
Miniature horses used to lug around far more than tiny carriages.
Glaswegians feel very strongly about the Duke of Wellington's unusual topper.