HISTORY

The Library of Congress has a new digital innovation lab, and its first task is to make its archive of historical newspapers more search-friendly.

The man behind the shoes you've worn forever.

Researchers located the UB II-type dive boat—a smaller submarine that typically plagued coastal waters—off the coast of Belgium, around 82 to 98 feet below the North Sea.

Sam ain't afraid of no ghosts.

It appeared on plenty of maps, but was completely fictional.

If you read Harper Lee's novel in school, it wasn't entirely because of the book's stellar literary value (though it has that, too).

Promising to take the world title back "home" to Germany, Schmidt became one of the highest-paid—and most-hated—athletes of the 1950s. He was also born in Quebec.

The Voynich is known as the most mysterious manuscript in the world.

Minor household inconveniences haven't changed that much since the '50s.

The legendary filmmaker hired hundreds of extras, trekked miles through the snow, and ate an uncomfortable amount of licorice to make his 1925 masterpiece.

An escape from England, an indentured servant with a mysterious past, and an untimely death while crossing the Atlantic. While these might sound like plot points for the latest historical spy thriller, they’re actually real events related to <em>The Bay P

As Austinites processed their shock and grief, the police worked to nab the perpetrator.