The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

Neighborhood rumor has it that the observatory was given to popular singer-composer John Denver ... decided to see if I could find [von Braun's] grave. I did so, and decided to place the flowers ...

The Reverend Canon Deacon Rachel Bennett, Assistant Curate at St John the Divine, West Worthing, reflects on the Christian festival of Ascension Day.

He’s Sort of Heavy I’ve noticed that whenever a Pope makes even the most anodyne remark, a host of GLBT commentators ...

John Leach learned that his great-great grandfather served in the Civil War and was buried without a gravestone, so he did something about it.

The monks of Mepkin Abbey have unveiled a garden space honoring enslaved buried in unmarked graves on their South Carolina ...

In Colombia, former soldiers accused of atrocities during the countrys guerilla war are helping to locate and exhume remains ...

Alex Perry Ross released his very strange and good meta-documentary called Pavements about the titular ’90s rock group. Today, we finally get to enjoy the film’s original soundtrack, which includes ...

Demands Management’s Board Nominees John Medland and Emily Jameson Withdraw Immediately or Face Public Complicity in Ongoing Alleged Systemic Violations of Securities Laws ...

We walk in the steps of Elvis Presley at Graceland in Memphis, sing into Johnny Cash’s mic at RCA Studios, and follow Taylor ...

The blood-stained leather gloves that were in ... photos of three suspects in the assassination conspiracy, led by John Wilkes Booth, sold for $762,500, far higher than the top estimated price ...