Lisbon was the capital of the Portuguese Empire, a nation of explorers, seafarers and conquerors. By Wanda...
History
The cataclysmic eruption of Thera split the island of Santorini into three smaller ones. By Jenna Frawley...
The three Storegga Slides of 6225-6170 BCE are considered to be amongst the largest known landslides. Introduction...
The first internet communication was underwhelming, thanks to a computer crash. But a lot has happened since...
The internet may have been “born” in October 1969, but it then percolated for years as complex,...
Andrew Jackson and his supporters felt that the 1824 Presidential election had been stolen from him, which...
The bones show interbreeding Neanderthal and Denosivan humans. This article reprinted from RFE/RL. A piece of bone...
Primitive women were more likely than their male counterparts to pack up and leave the cave. Primitive...
Both North and South looked to God for meaning, and each side believed—with equal fervor and certitude—that...
As vast as the Spanish empire was during Cervantes time, the empire found itself engaged in numerous...
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...