Had the Chicago History Museum known what was about to befall America’s second largest city, it might not have scheduled its ...

Besides burning the most urban area, the Eaton and Palisades fires are the largest ever for California in January. Alexandra ...

Winter is the very best time to get lost in a museum. Whittling away an entire afternoon without having to step outside once?

These six American fires led to change: political, legislative and geographic. Those tragedies helped shape the evolving ...

One historian says that Michigan’s Great Fire of 1881 in some ways still burns, offering lessons about how to prevent future ...

The Great Michigan Fire, also with an unconfirmed death toll, is believed to have claimed more than 500 lives, according to ...

Had the Chicago History Museum known what was about to befall America's second largest city, it might not have scheduled its current exhibition, City on Fire: Chicago 1871. Or, at least, it would have ...

According to folklore, this hapless bovine kicked the lantern and became the culprit that started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Truth is, we’ll never know who started the Great Chicago Fire ...

According to folklore, this hapless bovine kicked the lantern and became the culprit that started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Truth is, we’ll never know who started the Great Chicago Fire, ...