Much in the same way we hail cabs in cities today, a medieval Londoner could hail a torch-bearer (a link-boy) to light their way home from a night on the town.

A jinni in the home can help a Muslim explore religious tenets, but it may also interfere with the direct relationship between human and god.

Despite the prevalence of tricks and spooky spirits in earlier years, the American commercial holiday didn’t develop until the middle of the twentieth century.

If Dracula represented the collective fears of his day, what do the likes of Slender Man and other internet monsters tell us about the zeitgeist of right now?

As preservationists grapple with crumbling monuments in Brazil and Peru, they’re also confronting the progressive agendas that originally shaped the buildings.

Well-researched stories from NPR, Scientific American, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

This instructional guide is the first in a series of curricular content related to the Reveal Digital American Prison Newspaper collection on JSTOR.

Read on, but beware, these tales of spine-tingling ghosts and eerie spirits...

We all ponder them when standing in the cereal aisle of the grocery store, but why do we even have nutrition labels on our foods?

Song sharks have been a problem for aspiring lyricists nearly as long as there’s been a music industry.