Today in History for Jan. 7: In 1450, in Scotland, the University of Glasgow was founded. In 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo discovered the four satellites of Jupiter and named them Io, Europa, ...

Railways stretched across the United States, helping form the early stages of the country. East Texas being the home of the ...

Union Pacific is dropping new hints this week of a coast-to-coast journey for its historic locomotive nicknamed ‘Big Boy’ ...

From the Vanderbilt Triple Mansion to Eva Perón's Unzué Palace, rediscover the world's most amazing lost mansions through ...

Everybody on board the City lived to tell the tale. Two heroic rescuers, however, perished trying to reach the worst stranded ...