Mary Stuart's father reportedly predicted that the Scottish throne would end with a woman. But no one could have foreseen the ...

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A dusty artifact may be the key to solving one of true crime’s oldest mysteries.

Discover a quirky museum in Alton, Illinois packed with vampire kits, haunted dolls, and eerie relics that reveal the strange side of history.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told a gathering of Latin American military leaders on Thursday that drug cartels operating across the Western Hemisphere should be treated as ...

Clare Barron’s “You Got Older” is a rare play about a good dad. Wallace Shawn’s “What We Did Before Our Moth Days” is defiantly tender about a sleazy one.

A man is in custody for stealing a $10,000 bust of a famed late 19th and early 20th century St. Louis-born writer last month.

Virginia Oldoini helped conceptualize and starred in more than four hundred portraits so experimental and expressive that they have drawn comparisons to works by Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman.

I shall not consent to be tried under a law in which my sex had no voice in making,” Pearl Hart said during her trial in 1899.

The patriots weaponized Jane McCrea's death to demonize their enemies and paint Indigenous people as uniquely violent ...

In her new book, Darkology, historian Rhae Lynn Barnes writes about how blackface and minstrel shows became one of the most popular forms of entertainment in 19th- and 20th-century America.