Writers have long plotted murder mysteries in gardens of all sorts. What makes these fertile grounds for detective fiction?

Low Country artists of the late Renaissance and Early Baroque eras captured the happiness and hardships of snowy winters—an ever rarer phenomenon now.

The arsons were no accident, archaeological evidence suggests.

Vacations in the Soviet Union were hardly idylls spent with one’s dearest. Everything about them—from whom you traveled with to what you ate—was state determined.

A succession of authoritarian regimes birthed a strong tradition of collective action.