The challenge runs through Jan. 31 and invites participants of all ages to read books and attend library events focused on ...

Complete collections of presidential portraits are found in the White House and on public display in the National Portrait ...

Modern religious leaders are experimenting with A.I. just as earlier generations examined radio, television and the internet.

Most historians date the Christmas card’s arrival to 1843, the same year in which Charles Dickens published “A Christmas ...

In a short few years, and later on with funding support from the Energy Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, I came up with an invention — the UV Waterworks — that met ...

ROOTSTOWN, Ohio — An eighth grader from a small Ohio town is making her community proud, after winning a national invention competition this year, and now, her anti-car theft device is in the process ...

It has long been understood that illness is influenced not only by our bodies' physiology, but also language, culture, and meaning. This book, written by renowned cultural psychiatrist Laurence ...

In that year, the inventor and civil servant Henry Cole commissioned the artist John Callcott Horsley to design a card to help Cole handle his Christmas correspondence more efficiently.

Working out who invented the car is a long and winding road, and pinpointing a single person responsible is not a simple matter. If you rewind the development of cars past GPS, past antilock ...

From the wheel 5,500 years ago to the birth control pill, these 20 inventions had huge ramifications and have helped humans shape the world around us. Humans are naturally curious and creative ...

I saw this Tom Stoppard drama when it premiered at the National in 1997, the year I graduated from university, and it troubled me greatly. This new production marks the first major revival and I ...

This is a really interesting video about something called the gang-nail plate, a construction innovation that enabled larger roofs to be built on houses, removed the need for internal load-bearing ...