How did people live and die during the harshest months of the year? How did they stay warm? What did they eat? How did they ...

Education wasn’t for everyone. In the Middle Ages, who you were—your class, gender, and religion—decided whether you ever saw ...

At the Met Cloisters in Manhattan, paintings, statuettes and other objects demonstrate that human desire transcends time and ...

Deforestation and persecution, especially by Victorian gamekeepers, eradicated wildcats from England, Wales and much of ...

In middle-aged and older smokers with initially similar cognitive trajectories, smokers who quit subsequently had more ...

During the Middle Ages, taxation was considered to be appropriate only as an extreme measure in times of emergency, and as a ...

The Middle Ages, usually dated from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, were a period of striking contrasts. Castles rose ...

Accounts that are received from antiquity and repeated over and over again, then merge with eyewitness accounts and blend ...

David joined Raw Story in 2023 after nearly a decade of writing about the legal industry for Bloomberg Law. He is also a co-founder and a commissioning editor at Hypatia Press, a publisher that ...

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom. The events of the past ...

Background: Physical activity (PA) and screen time (ST) are crucial determinants of health among children and adolescents. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has witnessed rapid ...