Historical

For roughly a century, bank robberies have been glorified in the media and on the silver screen. (Think Bonnie and Clyde, Public…

By donating a lot of money to hospitals and universities to have their names emblazoned on buildings, the wealthy can ensure that…

When dealing with items in museum collections or newly discovered artifacts at archaeological digs, it’s easy to get excited and want a…

European history is littered with stories of executions for various reasons, and beheading was a rather prominent means of putting the condemned…

Dentistry is a modern field of medicine. While it has always existed in one form or another, it was largely unregulated in…

We all like to indulge our appetites every now and then. Maybe eat a bit more than we should. Maybe try out…

Everyone’s heard of Ghengis Khan, Adolf Hitler, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey Epstein. But, sadly, history is filled with mass murderers, psychopaths, child…

If adventure video games and movies like Indiana Jones are accurate, there are artifacts and stashes of valuables from ancient times just…

The 18th and 19th centuries saw a growth in a whole range of clubs. Gentleman’s clubs, like White’s, flourished everywhere. Special interest…

From Ancient Egypt to the Classical era to the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery, non-heteronormativity has long been a fact of…