As part of MotorTrend ’s 75th anniversary, we're looking back at some of history’s most significant cars. A complete list ...

By Ruth Kamnitzer Wondering how this summer’s blistering heat or last winter’s bone-chilling cold snap compared with previous ...

We think of the 1940s as World War II. But a lot more was happening in that decade. In Daviess County, more than 5,000 of us marched away to war and 226 of us didn’t come back. There were 30,245 of us ...

In the modern era, we take for granted having constantly updated, largely accurate maps of just about every road in the world at our fingertips. If you need to find your way through a city or across a ...

In October 1940, New Jersey business and civic leaders raised more than $100,000 to support Newark Airport and secure ...

Europe dominated headlines, Florida football hosted Texas for the last time...until Saturday. Here's what happened in that game.

(CBS News) It's Christmas for genealogists - the 1940 U.S. census was released Monday, 72 years after Americans were enumerated on the heels of the Great Depression and the eve of World War II. The ...

Nylon stockings became all the rage. Black fedoras were the "pure quill" — meaning the real deal. Bing Crosby crooned Only Forever on the console. And Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Thursday marks the 84th anniversary of when the Tacoma Narrows Bridge infamously collapsed due to strong winds in 1940. The bridge, also commonly referred to as Galloping Gertie, had ...

On the evening of July 18, 1940, Randolph Murdaugh Sr. was on his way home from a friend's home when his car mysteriously stopped on a railroad track On Thursday evening, a 12-person jury convicted ...

Changes in technology drive changes in work. Manufacturing jobs have slowed over the decades, while new professions such as Uber drivers and social media managers have emerged. A recent paper ...