In 1944, Marie Paneth, an Austrian-born art therapist, imagined a scheme whereby London’s bombsites would be used by local children for building huts and caves and for growing vegetables which they ...

Before kids were decked out in fancy Little League uniforms, stickball was the game of the streets. All you needed was a stick, a ball, and a good stretch of sidewalk — or better yet, an alley that ...

Dubbed one of the "10 most dangerous toys of all time," a miniature atomic energy lab is said to have been a widely sought-after children's toy in the 1950s – and it reportedly included four small ...