The discipline of history is under siege right now with misinformation running rampant. Illustrated narrative accounts push ...

Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown went viral after reading "Inner Excellence" on the sidelines during last ...

Sundays, or one of three obtuse 40-day periods throughout the year. Also, no imagining things. Or mouth stuff.

Two medieval methods utilized basic apparatus and the force of gravity to inflict extreme levels of discomfort. The Judas Cradle was a pyramid-shaped spike that a victim would be forced to sit on ...

Recipes can take many forms, from detailed sets of instructions to simple lists. Stuck to my refrigerator is a carefully ...

Combined with regular training in classical and medieval Latin, this hands-on year-long course gave me the confidence to handle and analyse rare books and manuscripts. Those who took this class ...

A new history of the seventeenth-century Basque witch-hunt usefully blows away some old myths, but fails to explain ...

R. Martin was heavily influenced by medieval history. Sure enough, this game captures that medieval feeling like the books and TV series did before it. In Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming ...

By shooting an apple off his son’s head, William Tell inspired both the Swiss people to fight for independence and a ...

I had my own little stage on which to play out the thrilling stories I was discovering from the rich tapestry of medieval history. (Speaking of tapestries, when I turned 7 the following August, I used ...

In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy writes about the tool’s inventor and others who have fought for its use The new book “El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval ...

In an exploration of faith, history and storytelling, Judith M. Davis has published “Finding the Virgin Mary: Her Evolving ...