On Feb. 15, 1858, at the B Street home of Sutter County District Attorney Zachariah Montgomery, Eleanor Bridget Evoy Montgomery gives birth to John Joseph Montgomery. He is one of six children born to ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

Lauren Gunderson’s play “The Half-Life of Marie Curie” is based on the true friendship of European scientists Marie Curie and ...

What happened on January 28 in world history? Here are 4 events worth remembering. Small medical transport plane crashes in Philadelphia The Larger Brains of Humans Come With a Tragic Cost, Study ...

While the vending machine might seem like a fairly modern invention, it’s actually believed to have been around since the first century. It’s one of many historical inventions that were way ...

Finally — Season 3 of “Young, Famous & African” has arrived, and the majority of the cast has returned for more drama and elegance. While fans have one less episode than the season before ...

In the 1871 case of United States v. Klein, the court held that Congress could not limit the president’s efforts to issue amnesty with wide-reaching language: “Pardon includes amnesty.

Over recent decades, a computer programmer and prolific internet commenter has risen from the obscurity of forums and pseudonymous blogs to the pages of this newspaper, as a friend to Vice ...

Born in 1871 in a small South Island town in New Zealand ... Ludwig Wittgenstein, the famous analytic philosopher, and none other than Niels Bohr, who revolutionized our understanding atomic ...

We have examples to turn to right here in Southern California. In the 1871 Chinese Massacre, a mob of 500 Angelenos killed 18 Chinese men and boys in a spasm of horrible racial violence.

Reitz Home Preservation Society and Museum, Evansville: $3,000 to expand educational programming for elementary students on the 1871 home's history, architecture, and the Victorian era. Last year, ...