With the help of a French hairdresser, Marie Antoinette embarked on what initially appeared to be a happily fated alliance between the Habsburgs and the Bourbons.

This election season has drawn enormous attention to the anxiety that many Americans in economically-distressed rural places seem ...

Is cockroach milk the next hot super food?

Tintypes were an early, accessible, cheap form of photography, just the thing for on-the-go Americans.

Nearly 1.5 billion tickets to horror movies were sold in 2015 alone. But why do we love being scared so much?

Our Friday Reads: a new book by Belle Boggs called The Art of Waiting.

The Voynich Manuscript has mesmerized people ever since the man it's named after, bibliophile Wilfred Voynich, brought it up for sale in 1912.

In colonial America, restaurants as we know them today were virtually unheard of.

We should acknowledge and absorb the pain captured in videos of police violence, just as antiracist activists bore witness in the past to lynchings.

How American public schools came to be taxpayer-funded.