In the aftermath of the American Civil War, a grieving nation turned towards spiritualism in the hope of seeing the dead once ...
There have been many examples of pointed hats in history, but it remains unclear how any of them became a must-wear for the ...
From ritual parades to blood-soaked duels, explore a single day in the life (and death) of the most brutal entertainment in ...
Explore how modern Britons sought signs of divine order in a collapsing world – from searching snails’ shells to eating moles ...
Turi King and Alex J Kay have married genetics with history to study a sample of DNA from Adolf Hitler – and, as they reveal, ...
Giuseppe Garibaldi’s courage and charisma made him a hero of Italian unification in the 19th century. Here’s how he became a ...
In a kingdom recently divided by faith, Elizabeth I’s government turned to espionage to defend the Protestant crown. This is ...
In the turbulent Republican Party of the late 1870s and early 1880s, Roscoe Conkling loomed as the hard-edged master of ...
In 1945, as Europe celebrated peace, Winston Churchill quietly asked his generals to plan an attack on the Soviet Union. But ...
Dixon line, he had achieved his escape from enslavement. But the first years of his freedom were marked by fear, isolation ...
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