The guillotine was the preferred method of execution during France's "Reign of Terror" in the 1790s. But the origins of this ...

D ante did like a category. Famously, he split sinners into different circles in Hell. Those who committed milder ...

Many were after an inside tip, which had helped bring Masquerade, a similar treasure hunt launched in 1979 in Britain, to a ...

The best adaptations based on the works of Charles Dickens are movies that inspire and deliver the perfect Victorian era vibe ...

At the turn of the century, thousands of Russian Jews fleeing antisemitic violence found a home, and cause, in Galveston.

Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author and the title of ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

Christopher Hill’s work on 17th-century England has been remarkably influential. In books like The World Turned Upside Down, ...

Thérèse, Louis-Joseph, Louis-Charles, and Sophie — and all of them suffered tragic fates like their mother. Sophie, the ...

From the Magna Carta to World War II, which ended 80 years ago, the history of the continent has been a succession of ...

For nearly four decades the prop house History for Hire has helped filmmakers recreate the past. But with fewer films shot in ...