Bootleg recordings and music piracy have been an issue a lot longer than most people realize. It can be all traced back to a man in the rafters of the Metropolitan Opera.

Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the ...

It’s not an accident that the Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys all have names typically used for people (though they’re not all named ...

The history goes back to 1935. William Maxson of West Orange developed the idea of freezing already cooked foods and then ...

Today in History for Feb. 11: ...

Hello, and welcome back to This Week in History! Writing this column always feels like an adventure, especially after returning from nearly a two-month break.

Ruth also set a new single-season home run record in that year ... Florida. The phonograph was invented by Edison in 1877, and improved by other inventers over the years including Alexander ...

To call Meagan Hennessey and Richard Martin an adorable couple sounds trite given the impressive gravity of their creative projects, but spend ten minutes with them and it’s clear — their preservation ...

There aren’t many records of other famous scientists ... door to the world we know and love today. He invented the phonograph and motion picture camera, paving the way for the movie industry. Edison ...

The barn that serves as his office is packed with hard drive copies of Lomax’s records and thousands of his own vinyls — including old phonograph albums he has collected over time of Yiddish ...

In celebration of the album’s arrival, more than 100 independent record stores in 35 states across the U.S. will host special release parties. The listening events will take place on either ...

Southern California Edison claims there were no electrical anomalies on its transmission lines in Eaton Canyon leading up to the Eaton fire. Plaintiffs in a lawsuit going to trial this year over ...