James Beckwourth was born into slavery, but forged a life as a 19th-century pioneer in the American West.

The TV show “Parks and Recreation” launched the once-fictional February holiday in 2010.

In 1988, a team of athletes from sun-soaked Jamaica became an unlikely sensation by competing in the very winter sport of bobsledding.

Hand stencils, animal drawings and narrative paintings make up some of the oldest known cave art.