Category: History Knowledge

Surprising Origins of 7 Classic Toys: Many childhood memories include hours spent casting Play-Doh, or watching a Slinky come down the stairs, or marveling at

Seven years after fighting Rutgers in what is considered the first college football game, Princeton met Yale on November 30, 1876, in the first college

In March 1621, representatives of the Wampanoag Confederation–the indigenous peoples of the area that is now Southeastern Massachusetts–negotiated a treaty with a group of English

Lacrosse, the oldest team sport in the United States, dates back to AD 1100, when it was practiced by the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois, in what

The first recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was applied not to post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping but to the financial crisis: in particular, the crash

The period of rapid technological advancement in the United States known as the Industrial Revolution may have taken place during parts of the 18th and

In the decades leading up to 22-year-old rookie Franco Harris’ “immaculate reception”, considered the greatest game in NFL history, the Pittsburgh Steelers were mostly gruesome.

Cumberland Posey, the only person in Baseball and Basketball Temples of Fame, wasn’t just a great athlete. He was also one of the black league’s

Decades before Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders played in baseball and football, Jim Thorpe was America’s first multisport athlete. A two-time college football all-American and