Thanksgiving is oft celebrated as a communion between the colonists and natives. Less often, is the more grisly history that followed it acknowledged as the two groups began to mistrust each other.

110 years ago today, Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity, which redefined the relationship between matter and gravity. Suddenly, our mysterious universe made a little more sense...

Mark Twain had spent years as a printer and as a newspaper reporter. But his first real success as a writer — the story that brought him national attention — was the tale of a champion jumping frog th...