Local youths and volunteers gather in an open field and wait to support firefighters during a wildfire next in the Greek village of Kamatriades.

Reconstruction of settlement of late Jomon period, Japan, illustrationUNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1900: Prehistory, Neolithic, Japan. Reconstructed late Jomon period settlement. Drawing. (Photo By DEA PICTURE LIBRARY/De Agostini via Getty Images)

Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), English scientist who studied heredity, founder of science of eugenics.

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In the Roaring Twenties, a surging economy created an era of mass consumerism, as Jazz-Age flappers flouted Prohibition laws and the Harlem Renaissance redefined arts and culture.

Roaring Twenties

Prehistory, the vast period of time before written records or human documentation, includes the Neolithic Revolution, Neanderthals and Denisovans, Stonehenge, the Ice Age and more.

Pre-History

Crime has been a dark and powerful undercurrent in human society throughout history. Uncover the facts behind some of the most daring robberies, brazen scams and brutal murders ever committed.

Crime

From religious and patriotic observances to celebrations of ethnic pride, explore the history of Easter, Passover, New Year's Day, Veterans' Day, Memorial Day and much more.

Holidays

1984

Inventions from the telephone to the Model T and the computer have defined human history, and inventors like Leonardo da Vinci, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney and Alexander Graham Bell have transformed our society.

Inventions & Science

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1921

Explore the wars, battles, leaders, civilizations, regimes, prominent figures and major events from the continent that encompasses 2 percent of the Earth’s surface. From Stonehenge to the Great Awakening to the French Revolution to the rise and fall of Communism in Russia, see how Europe’s often tumultuous history unfolded.

European History

During the 1980s, conservative politics and Reaganomics held sway as the Berlin Wall crumbled, new computer technologies emerged, AIDS ravaged the United States, especially the gay male community, and blockbuster movies and MTV reshaped pop culture.

1980s

Natural disasters and changes in the environment, such as global warming, the San Francisco Earthquake, Hurricane Katrina, the Galveston Hurricane, the Krakatoa eruption and others, have profoundly shaped human history. Explore both the sudden and long-term impacts of natural and human-made disasters.

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Chernobyl

Neolithic Revolution

Eugenics

Climate Change History

Stories

This 1920s Inventor Sped Up Climate Change With His Chemical Creations

Are Scientists on the Verge of Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth?

An Entire Layer of Earth’s History Could Have Been Ripped Away by Ice

Why Did the Clovis People Mysteriously Vanish?

This Day in History

Man who served 25 years for murder exonerated by DNA

First human heart transplant

The birth of quantum theory

World’s first “test tube” baby born

Baby Fae, infant who received baboon heart transplant, dies

Scientists successfully isolate insulin