If you grew up here, chances are you either rode the Zephyr at Pontchartrain Beach or heard family members wax nostalgic ...

Gone are social distancing and temperature checks, but COVID-19 precautions still play a role in some of today’s theme park ...

Western Playland amusement park opened with eight rides on 15 acres at Ascarate Park. May 28, Labor Day weekend, 1960.

Trump is not the first American leader to dream of northern expansion. To me, a historian of early U.S.-Canadian relations, these designs suggest not power, but weakness and simmering divisions ...

Kennedy, like other American presidents in the early years of the Cold War, fretted over the spread of communism. A well-known development economist, Walt Rostow, who served in Kennedy’s ...

The Giant Dipper was the largest on the West Coast at the time it was built and is one of the oldest operating roller ...

and they're doing it early. Many states and cities have bragging rights to being the “first” and “oldest” in the nation for different milestones throughout America's history. And with the ...

On June 4, 1829, she blew up, killing and wounding a number of people. To America belongs the glory of building the pioneer transatlantic "tealllship. This was the steamer Savannah. which was ...

Despite its potential formation so early in cosmic history, a star this size may not ... planets could still be out there, waiting for us to find and study them. That isn’t to say that life ...

This continued until the first restrictions on white European immigration in the early 20th century. Throughout the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s, this was the case. When studying Latin American history, it ...