History

On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission made a successful launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida…

There’s never been a better time to get out and go camping somewhere than right now. It’s a chance to be socially…

African Americans have been faced with obstacles to their success in this country since its inception, and the auto…

History books are spilling over with people who have achieved seemingly impossible feats in their lifetime, but they…

On February 7, 1938, a man by the name of Harvey S. Firestone died of coronary thrombosis—or, a blood clot in the…

I know, we are a bit infamous for our bad pizza takes around here, but here is a pizza take I will gladly defend all…

I am a fan of the strange and unusual, so when our Editor-in-Chief Rory Carroll spotted this fascinating story in Nat…

When you think of Smart — if you do — the vehicle that usually comes to mind is the second-generation Fortwo.…

U-Haul has an interesting history. After getting its start renting trailers at service stations, the company went…

On December 26, 1956, a man named Preston Tucker died at the age of 53. His name may not be immediately familiar to…

At 1:50 p.m. on December 20, 1951, the world’s first breeder reactor harvested power. The Experimental Breeder…

Hey, here’s something fascinating just for all you crazy kids who have chosen to exist in the present: the past was…

We’ve been losing things over the Bermuda Triangle for over 100 years, but one of the strangest occurrences took…

On Thanksgiving day in 1895, Frank Duryea won the first automobile race ever hosted in the United States. 125 years…

In an essay published after his death, civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. called public…

On November 22, 1900, entrepreneur Emil Jellinek took his specially-crafted Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft machine out…

It’s the time to get a little spooky, and since most of us aren’t going out to celebrate this year, let’s talk about…

I’ve been recently thinking about the last time Americans seemed to have collectively lost their minds: the Cold…

When the automobile started taking the world by storm, it was pretty much a guarantee that the first customers would…

Alanson Partridge Brush. Remember that name. Because it was according to his patents that Cadillac put into…