Established in 2010, All That's Interesting brings together a dedicated staff of digital publishing veterans and subject-level experts in history, true crime, and science. From the lesser-known byways ...

The American Civil War marked a major turning point in the history of the United States. Less than a century after it was officially founded, the U.S. was at risk of becoming two different countries, ...

Archaeologists are used to finding ancient relics or human remains during their excavations, but organic objects like food, for instance, are far more rare. So it was a special thrill for ...

America’s involvement in the Vietnam War was contentious, to say the least. Despite U.S. President Richard Nixon calling on the so-called “silent majority” who supported the country’s actions in ...

Mandy Smith was just 13 years old when she caught the eye of Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman — a man who was 34 years her senior. Their controversial relationship eventually made headlines across ...

Over the decades, dozens of prehistoric bone tools have been collected from caves across France and Spain. These tools were used to hunt reindeer and bison, and researchers have long suspected that ...

A group of university students working in the Netherlands have located a unique ancient Roman military camp, one that existed beyond the northern border of the Roman Empire. The students are studying ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a stunning, first-of-its-kind artifact from an ancient tomb in Gyeongju, South Korea. During excavations at a burial dubbed Tomb 120-2, they came across a 1,400-year-old ...

The rock and roll scene in the late 1960s was undoubtedly a decade-defining movement. Beatlemania was in full force, and the Rolling Stones, The Who, Pink Floyd, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience were ...

On a hot September day in 1957, a mob began to form outside Harry Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. Spanning two city blocks, the men, women, and children in the crowd were awaiting ...

The remains of General Charles-Étienne Gudin, one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s most valued military commanders, have been uncovered in Smolensk, Russia by a team of French and Russian archaeologists.

New York City is always changing. From decade to decade, the city seems to transform, sloughing off its old skin and emerging as something entirely new. This was especially true in 1950s New York City ...