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 ...

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 ...

One of classic Hollywood’s major crimes is to have invested colossal efforts in fiction and hardly any in nonfiction, which, in the early days, was largely relegated to “newsreels.” As a result, most ...

President Trump on Friday predicted the government would shut down “for a period of time” amid an impasse in the Senate between Republicans and Democrats. Trump expressed some pessimism about the two ...

In one of the most iconic moments in NFL history, the San Francisco 49ers found themselves backed against the wall during Super Bowl XXIII. They were down 16–13 against the Cincinnati Bengals, with ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Students and staff will be returning to Arrowhead Middle School after a fire last month forced the school to temporarily relocate, Principal Larry Smith announced Wednesday. In ...