Browse through significant events in Southwest Louisiana history below. Find more This Day in History here. Nov. 3, 1868: The ...

Diane Ladd, the prolific actor who earned Academy Award nominations for her spirited performances in Martin Scorsese's "Alice ...

Through Google Earth’s lens, we retrace the dramatic Fall of Constantinople in 1453. In just one minute, we chart the city’s ...

Jewish and Catholic faith leaders condemned a Halloween parade float that carried a replica of the gate to the Nazi ...

Ten minutes before the beginning of class, Professor Douglas Boin walks into the classroom and sets down his briefcase. Rather than beginning to set up for his lecture, Boin turns to two students ...

A remarkable wooden sculpture depicting the mythological hero Hercules has emerged from an ancient refuse pit on the Spanish island of Ibiza, impressing archaeologists with its state of preservation.

Archaeologists recently found a massive stone basin in Italy dating back more than 2,000 years — remnants of a once-powerful ...

The carriage workshop, which also had evidence of fixing horseshoes, was situated along the well-traveled Via Claudia Augusta and offered services to travelers in the first century C.E.

The Year of the Four Emperors (69 AD) marked the first brutal civil war of the Roman Empire, plunging the empire into chaos ...