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

As Los Angeles faces its latest fire crisis, it must look to the lessons of past urban fires that led to sweeping changes and ...

The Los Angeles fires hark to the nineteenth-century blazes that ravaged our cities—and point toward an even more flammable ...

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

State Farm Insurance is not the bad guy for canceling policies before the LA fires. If anyone is to blame for that, it's ...

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

An estimated 180,000 people have fled their homes this week as firefighters battle to control several deadly wildfires across ...

The many fires burning around Los Angeles are pressing the limits of firefighting.

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

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 ...