In fifth grade, my class was assigned to write a speech about what we thought was the greatest invention. I chose the ...

Today, we celebrate the revolutionary life and legacy of Alexander Graham Bell, a titan of ingenuity whose groundbreaking invention connected the world ...

Commentary: My level of telephone mayhem never reached heights of cruelty, but the endless hours of making or receiving prank calls in those pre-internet days became my coming-of-age story.

Do you remember what it was like to be bored -- like really bored? As a Gen Xer, I didn't grow up scrolling social media or playing endless hours of "Minecraft" to keep me busy; instead, I spent a ...

The telephone was invented before women were able to vote in the United States. The hit musical “West Side Story” has been on and off Broadway longer than women have received equal pay to men. The ...

The stuffy confines of the United States Patent Office could scarcely have presented a less romantic Valentine’s Day setting. But on the morning of February 14, 1876, amid the thrum of clerks busying ...

Lewis Latimer was one of the greatest inventors you may have never heard of, a man whose genius helped light up the modern ...

Boomers grew up without Modern conveniences are most certainly generational. What grandchildren view as normal were nonexistent or not so widely used when ...

The denizens of this shelter came for safety. But what they found was the impromptu community created when dozens of Israelis are packed together underground, waiting out a war The post ‘We meet again ...

— Marilynn Anderson is the author of “INSTANT READER ~ BIG KIDS READ BOOK FOUR of Twelve Books: “WHAT DID DOG DO?” eBook format, priced at 99-cents for each book. These books are found at Amazon ...

Raised on wall clocks, handkerchiefs, and street games, the children of the 1980s and 1990s now live in a world that never ...