As vast as the Spanish empire was during Cervantes time, the empire found itself engaged in numerous...
History
The Galatian Celts retained their culture at first, continuing to observe their ancient religious festivals and rituals....
Forget football and cheese. Maybe it should be famous for its shaggy werewolves and shape-shifting schoolteachers! The...
The 1918-1919 flu claimed millions of lives worldwide. Could it also have given birth to the viral...
Examining what made these cheap, sensational, highly illustrated stories so popular with the Victorian public. By Judith...
They needed others to see them, to draw people to their grief. Reader, he died. I’ve devoted...
A Christmas Carol isn’t the only spine-chilling Christmas ghost story from the pen of Charles Dickens. Introduction...
Young Goodman Brown is one of the scariest stories in American literature. Halloween is a great time...
The Shelleys, Byron, Polidori, and the birth of a timeless tale. The story of how Frankenstein was...
An appropriate end, or beginning, for a ghost that will live many, many more lives. 1981 The...
Huguenots were not only believers in science, but also remained firmly committed to their belief in God...
Witch trials most often targeted a persecuted minority: women. Introduction “Witch hunt” – it’s a refrain used...
Art history students offer a bite-sized introduction to the bestiary of the European Middle Ages. Introduction The...
Next time you come across a toad, you might just want to reconsider becoming acquainted! If you...
Medieval books of beasts reflect the attitudes of the people who made them—including antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, and...
The rituals now associated with Halloween have a complex relationship to this medieval Hallowmass. I had the...
The souls most likely to return to haunt the living were those whose burial rituals were not...
Ghost stories were the earliest form of literature in ancient China. By Emily MarkHistorian Introduction Ghost stories were...
Countries around the world today celebrate Halloween in one form or another. Introduction Halloween is among the...
Why the Kid’s enduring popularity? More than 1,000 books and essays have been published about Billy the...
The contribution of popular but historically inaccurate films—and literature—to the evolution of a misguided patriotism that fails...
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual. By Ruth Garde / 04.06.2017 Curator,...
Today’s beds are thought of as bastions of privacy. But not long ago, they were the perches...
The ancients were just as keen as anyone to improve their appearance as quickly and as easily...
We can see how the world once was and glimpse now lost landscapes, flora and fauna. By...
During the Industrial Revolution, living conditions for new industrial workers were much different than they had been...
Throughout the Industrial Revolution, gender was a major influence on worker salary. Experience of Women at the...
Bayan I first enters history with the migration of the Avars to the region of the Pontic...
Considered virtually impregnable, it was the largest Crusader castle in the Middle East. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction...
He was refined, very famous, and eccentric. Near the dawn of the twentieth century, a young Englishwoman...