After Christian crusaders captured Jerusalem, the Prison of Christ featured on pilgrims' itineraries. But was Christ actually ever imprisoned there?

Luminaries from Agatha Christie to Walter Gropius gravitated to London’s “Lawn Road Flats.” So too did a far less conspicuous cohort: assets for the USSR.

Japanese American immigrant wives in the American West attempted to improve their living conditions through sex work.

There were 35 million prisoners of war held during World War II. One soldier's diary full of collages and drawings brings a human dimension to that number.

Well-researched stories from Aeon, The New Yorker, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Like the fictional character she inspired, Matilda was at the center of a civil war, fighting her own relatives for control of the royal throne.

While Singapore's iconic Raffles Hotel may be marketed as a tranquil throwback to a bygone age, it also reveals the complicated truths of imperialism.

The 1947 partition of India and creation of Pakistan came with a hefty price—especially for the subcontinent’s women.

Galileo's telescopic view of the Moon sparked a giant transformation in the way human beings thought about the natural world.

In the 1960s, the government proposed the construction of two dams in the Grand Canyon, potentially flooding much of Grand Canyon National Park.