The complicated system that determines the High Holy Days is a relatively new creation, dating to around 350 CE.

With a captive audience of millions and a relaxed atmosphere, the late-night talk show offers a good opportunity to make policy discussions more memorable.

The failed campaign to put Lady Arbella Stuart in the line of succession began with a matchmaking scheme between her two grandmothers.

Drug use during World War II, especially by Nazis, was typically viewed as immoral. But what about when it was approved by leaders of the Royal Air Force?

Though vidding is now generally a part of online culture, it originated in the grassroots editing efforts of female television fans.

Although most enslaved people worked in the fields, captive workers with strong swimming and diving skills were also exploited by plantation owners.

Cosmic trees, found around the globe and throughout history, may represent a primeval fount of creation or a vegetal axis mundi that connects life and death.

The French existentialist got more than he bargained for when he went in search of drug-induced inspiration for his philosophical writings.

The men and women who tracked down looted art after WWII didn’t just go after stuff stolen by the Nazis. They also searched for treasures stolen by the Japanese. Sort of.

While some viewed photography as a competitor for their customers, Dutch portrait painters reaped the benefits of the emerging medium.