It’s hard to pinpoint when humans started recording and sharing knowledge of the past. But it’s estimated that they started early on. At first, there were cave paintings, and then language, which ...

A furious political leader shouting a message of hate to an adoring audience. A child crying over the massacre of her family. Emaciated men in prison uniforms, starved to the edge of death because of ...

Who among us hasn't wished for the ability to time travel. Unfortunately, you can't hop in a DeLorean, gun it to 88 miles per hour, and visit the past. However, Google Earth has the next best thing ...

More than two dozen historic prints that depict a slice of Native American life and culture on the Upper Missouri River nearly 200 years ago will soon be more accessible to the public thanks to a gift ...

Stepping back into 1935 is like entering a world that feels both strangely familiar and entirely alien. It was a year defined by a gritty determination to move forward, as families across the globe ...

New website Brooklyn Visual Heritage Project Chart just launched in the efforts to digitize historic images of Brooklyn and make them accessible to the public. There’s already a massive list of photo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looking Back’s theme for 2026 is Downtown by the Decades. Each week will feature a view of downtown Olympia over the years.