Tickets are available to hear Atkinson talk about his newest book Monday. He'll appear downtown at the First Presbyterian Church.

Samuel Kanyon Doe was president of Liberia after staging a violent 1980 coup against William Tolbert who was assassinated. He ...

A new documentary, "Secrets of the Dead: The Woman in the Iron Coffin," reveals how researchers determined the woman's identity and the time in which she lived.

A green burial entrepreneur from New Jersey plans to bring new life and natural burials to the overgrown 19th century ...

Long before it became a symbol of academic prestige, Harvard University was a frontline player in America’s fight for ...

Ever stumbled upon a place so captivating it feels like you’ve wandered into the pages of a vintage storybook? That’s Fernandina Beach for you – a hidden treasure nestled on Amelia Island in Nassau ...

Tucked away in Houston’s northern reaches sits a museum that gives new meaning to the phrase “deadly serious” – the National Museum of Funeral History. This isn’t your typical “let’s go see some ...

Embalming was not yet common, and the time and expense it required meant that it was reserved for the wealthy. It was not until the Civil War that a streamlined embalming process emerged, driven in ...

When I was a child, I used to go walking with my father. He was a religious man and taught me a simple lesson…never pass a ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

War artifacts are typically weapons and uniforms, but occasionally something so strange shows up, that even historians are at ...

In January of that year, as the Civil War was coming to an end, a group of Black soldiers with the 5th United States Colored Calvary out of Camp Nelson were herding cattle to Louisville when they ...