A drone flying over a field in Ireland was able to make out the outline of an ancient henge, a circular enclosure that may have had ritualistic purposes.

To hide in plain sight while on assignment in foreign nations, agents needed precisely tailored clothes made to look local.

In the late 19th century, more women were becoming librarians. Experts like Melvil Dewey predicted they would suffer ill health, strain, and breakdowns.

How New York City's tabloids sensationalized the murder case that inspired the classic film noir Double Indemnity.

American often gets credit for having the first written constitution. But the constitution of the short-lived republic of Corsica preceded it by 30+ years.

A strange initiation ritual involving a toad was required for members of a secret caste of nineteenth-century horse mystics.

With President Trump calling for a “Space Force” and private enterprise increasingly invested in space, what of the dream of international peace?

Examining the 18th-century social contract of Captain Bartholomew Roberts and his men shows just how organized and codified pirate societies could be.

The feared gang MS-13 was born out of conditions resulting from U.S. policies in El Salvador in the early 1980s.

Many abolitionists seeking to end slavery in the British West Indies were concerned less with human rights, more with the preponderance of what they saw as "interracial sex."