Once popular across the United States, jai alai lives on in American sport culture mostly thanks to its history as a legal option for gambling.

This history of patent leather is as murky as its finish is glossy.

Take a look back at how others have survived—and thought about—the high heat of summer.

The science behind using crash test dummies to determine the effects of car crashes on the human body only dates to the 1960s.

In 1973, an experiment with dyed food and colorful lights had participants vomiting up their half-finished meals. But did it really happen?

For centuries, a fork-tailed mythical creature that lurks in the pinelands of the Garden State has served as a reminder of the horrors that result when reproductive freedoms are destroyed.

Cold cream has been around since ancient Greek times. But what’s it actually for?

One of the first female investigative reporters, Nellie Bly shone a light on the plight of American women by facing the world head on.

Humans like to seal collections of ephemera in containers that they then hide in soon-to-be-forgotten places. Whither the time capsule?

Between 1920 and the 1960s, tens of thousands of people received treatment with a Spectro-Chrome to address various ailments.