This ancient Indian practice is thousands of years old. The history of hair oiling goes beyond the current beauty trend.

During WWII, many Conscientious Objectors worked to reform mental health care institutions, with lasting results.

Read the history of how this seed native to Western Africa has taken over the beauty world.

The history of James Tilly Matthews and the reform of Bedlam Asylum.

In the mid-twentieth-century American South, Black women had limited access to medical services and maternal care. Many gave birth at...

Used Shark Teeth to Argue for Sedimentation in Rock Creation Niels Stensen (or, Nicolas Steno, 1638-1686) was a Danish anatomist who...

First use of Forensic Fingerprinting in Buenos Aries, Argentina Fingerprinting was first used as a means of perpetrator identification in...

Surgeon Developed General Anesthesia in Edo, Japan Hanaoka Seishu is the first person on record to have performed a successful surgery...

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) was born on a farm in Oswego, New York in November 1832. She attended Syracuse Medical College,...

In 1781-82, an influenza pandemic swept through Europe. A scientific lecturer and magician, Gustavus Katterfelto, had recently arrived to...

In 1666, Great Britain was hit with an outbreak of the plague, the Great Fire of London, and it survived an attack by the Dutch. This...