Ethan Trex

Is it really not the heat, but the humidity? With temperatures spiking around the country, we thought it was a good time to answer some questions about the heat index.

Josephine Baker was probably the closest thing the Jazz Age had to a mega-star. The Black actress/dancer was a worldwide celebrity and devoted civil rights activist who first rose to fame by dancing in a "skirt" of artificial bananas (and very little else

Sally Ride—the first American woman in space—paved the way for female astronauts, and proved there is such thing as a stupid question.

Answers to a few questions that might come up when the State of the Union address storms every channel of your TV.

You can quote 'The Raven.' But how well do you know Edgar Allan Poe's quirky sense of humor and code-cracking abilities?

On January 15, 1919, Boston suffered one of history’s strangest disasters when the “Great Molasses Flood” tore through the city's North End and deposited so much gooey residue that locals claimed they could still smell the molasses on warm days decades la

Relax, Hallmark conspiracy theorists: Boxing Day isn’t some prank to confuse America. It’s a real holiday in the United Kingdom and other European countries that dates back to the days of Queen Victoria.

Before anyone brings home the hardware, let’s answer a few questions about John Heisman and his trophy.