Yet this image couldn’t be further from the truth. The French emperor was probably closer to five feet six or […] ...

“Let them eat cake!” is one of the most famous misquotes in history. There's no record of Marie Antoinette ever saying this ...

Many of us look back at our school days fondly, but have you ever wondered how much of what you learned was actually true? It turns out that some of the historical facts you've held onto might be ...

"Germany invading Britain is always the funniest one to me. They could have smashed the RAF into oblivion and still not been able to invade. They quite literally did not have the boats to make a ...

I’ve been a historian for several years. For six years, I studied the past in college. For nearly a decade, I’ve been employed in the history field. Through all that time, one takeaway that is ...

The problem with history is, to state the obvious, that it's already happened. If you're unsure about something, there's no way to go back and check – and almost every historical period is full of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — When a total solar eclipse crosses Ohio next month, modern astronomers will use the world’s most sophisticated computers and telescopes to measure, track and record it. But ancient ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...