The British have long celebrated Guy Fawkes Day on November 5, but now the October 31 holiday is a lot more appealing.
Got nausea, headaches or heart trouble? You can thank medieval witches’ potions for helping to cure what ails you
Costume designer Mariah Hale explains how to wrap the perfect last-minute toga
Washington Irving fled New York because of a yellow fever epidemic. Twenty-two years later, his classic story spoke to the chaos of his youth
We know where the bodies are buried ... take a virtual tour of world cemeteries that host famous artists and rogues
Linda Hazzard killed as many as a dozen people in the early 20th century, and they paid willingly for it
From kraken to mermaids, some monsters are real—if you know how to look for them
Women looking to work, vote and marry whomever they wanted turned the Halloween icon into a powerful symbol
Chicago’s working poor were expecting a day in luxury. They instead faced a horrific calamity on Lake Michigan
Why was the 2004 unveiling of a small hominin dubbed <em>Homo floresiensis</em> such a big deal?
Thousands of bodies from London’s first red light district are buried beneath a lot in the South Bank, an area under massive redevelopment
Earth's changing climate has been a spectre in centuries of civil conflict and, at times, the collapse of whole civilizations
Phillips uncovered millennia-old treasures beneath Arabian sand, got rich from oil and died relatively unknown
Documentary filmmaker Bill Morrison plunges us into the Great Flood of 1927
Built in 1964, the span still stands as Americas’ largest suspension bridge
Truman Hunt and Richard Schneidewind were locked in a fierce competition, but by the end, the tribespeople were left poor, hungry and yearning for home
Was the famous author killed from a beating? From carbon monoxide poisoning? From alcohol withdrawal? Here are the top nine theories
A new Archives of American Art exhibition looks at how artists documented their lives before social media
In a new book, Steven Johnson describes the many technologies that glass, refrigeration and other fundamental inventions have made possible
The Pennsylvanian city had more lives than a cat and thrives as a hub of innovation
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