Some claimed the battles were so fierce they could smell the gunpowder.

Intended to protect consumers from unscrupulous quackery, a nineteenth-century ban on medical advertising proved to be a double-edged sword.

An interview with scholar Susie Steinbach, a professor of history at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Samuel Smiles' 1859 book, Self Help, offered a groundbreaking approach to self improvement.

Shoplifting was defined as kleptomania and understood as a psychological condition, but only a some members of society..

On Thursday, September 18, 2014, the United Kingdom faces one of the most significant potential changes to its structure in centuries. If the majority decid