Boston's Notorious "Skinny" Spite House Can Be Yours for $1.2 Million
Boston's Skinny House was built out of spite more than a century ago, and now it can be yours for $1.2 million.
Boston's Skinny House was built out of spite more than a century ago, and now it can be yours for $1.2 million.
The 9/11 Museum has compiled over 1000 firsthand accounts from survivors, first responders, and eyewitnesses from one of the most cataclysmic days in American history.
From the 1920s to the 1940s, Oscar Micheaux led the way in shining a spotlight on Black culture in the movies.
Paris’s Panthéon houses graves for just five women. Josephine Baker—star, spy, and civil rights activist—is about to become the sixth.
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The life of Edgar Allan Poe, author of 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and other horror stories, was as strange as his fiction.
Is William McGonagall the best poet ever? Absolutely not. Is he the best bad poet ever? Quite possibly yes.
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Louis Vuitton has been such a big part of the high-fashion world for so long that it’s easy to forget Vuitton—who was born in 1821, founded the company in 1854, and died in 1892—was an actual person.
This rare, historic footage captures Tulsa's thriving Black Wall Street neighborhood before it was destoryed in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
For three weeks each August, Edinburgh buzzes with activity as people pour into the Scottish capital for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
School has come a long way since the 19th and 20th centuries. From corporal punishment to lunch to recess, here are just a few ways school was different a century ago.
French engineer Nicolas-Jacques Conté created what is considered the modern pencil, though many have since made improvements.
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