Stories

Get to Know Yoshimoto Nara and the Japanese Neo-Pop Movement

By Diana Oliveira

The Mamluk Sultanate: How Slaves Came to Rule an Empire

By Ilias Luursema

Terror on the HMS Erebus: The Tragic Arctic Expedition

By Kassandre Dwyer

What Was the Medieval Legend of Prester John?

By Greg Pasciuto

Freak Shows: The Truth Behind Beauty and the Beast

By Alice Marinelli

Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin

By Kassandre Dwyer

Whaleship Essex: The Terrifying Story That Inspired Moby Dick

By Kassandre Dwyer

Victoria Woodhull: The Women’s Rights Activist Who Ran for President

By Amy Hayes

Phoolan Devi, Bandit Queen of India

By Scott Mclaughlan

10 Crazy Facts About the History of Syphilis

By Molly Dowdeswell

Robert Koch: Great Microbiologist or Unethical Researcher?

By Molly Dowdeswell

Capitalist Countries vs. Socialist Countries, Explained

By Owen Rust

The Loudun Affair: Bizarre Witch Trials in France

By Michaela Engelbrecht

7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero

By Anthony Arcane

The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II

By Amy Hayes

How Did Frederick the Great Transform Prussia?

By Greg Beyer

Giacomo Casanova’s Legendary Swashbuckling Travels

By Stephanie Jelks

Alexander Nevsky: Savior of the Kievan Rus’?

By Greg Beyer

P.T. Barnum: The Greatest Showman on Earth

By Marianne Plasse

5 Celebrities Accused of Being Communists During the Second Red Scare

By Madison Whipple

The 1968 Prague Spring: Democratic Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain?

By Owen Rust

The Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke

By Amy Hayes

8 Great American Autobiographers You Should Be Reading

By John Tuttle

Clementine Churchill: The Secret Powerhouse Behind Winston Churchill

By Tsira Shvangiradze

Abelard and Heloise: The Standout Love Story of the Middle Ages

By Faith Lee

How Eleanor Roosevelt Helped Found the United Nations

By Tsira Shvangiradze

5 Key Battles That Defined Oliver Cromwell

By Matthew Doherty

Ignatius of Loyola: How a Soldier Founded the Jesuit Order

By Barbora Jirincova

The 7 Most Beautiful Places in Africa

By Greg Beyer

The Counter-Reformation: How did the Catholic Church Reinvent Itself?

By Barbora Jirincova