Premium docs specialist Lightbox is moving into drama with Gunpower Siege, a scripted series for Sky History in the UK that promises to reveal the gripping truth behind the Gunpowder Plot. Chuku Modu ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - This week 250 years ago a South Carolina ship sailed to St. Augustine, Florida on a mission to secure gunpowder for the war. The sloop Commerce intercepted the ...

A novelist and popular history writer, Kelly traces the history of gunpowder from 10th-century China to the late 19th century, when it was supplanted by Alfred Nobel's nitroglycerin. Kelly takes ...

Gunpowder didn’t just revolutionize weapons—it rewrote human history. From Chinese alchemists seeking immortality to cannons that tore down medieval castles, this is the story of how one discovery ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

The sight of an angry governor marching down to Tobacco Bay in a re-enactment of a dramatic night in Bermuda’s history captivated residents on Saturday. The replay of the Gunpowder Plot of 1775 ...

Gunpowder used in cannons helped change the nature of warfare, but it took a while to get the recipe just right. By William J. Broad In the early days of the pandemic, Dawn E. Riegner, a chemist at an ...