Presidents have been pardoning turkeys every Thanksgiving for decades, but how did this tradition get started?

We all watch the ball drop on New Year's Eve, but the ball has its own history that began well before Times Square and out on the high seas.

In 1951, PM Ben-Gurion chose a menorah—suggested by the Jewish Museum—as a birthday gift for U.S. President Harry S. Truman.

From witches to vikings to noblewomen, the Halloween costumes you buy in stores today are not exactly historically accurate.