Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

Throughout the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the early years of the Gilded Age, Thomas Nast used his political cartoons published in Harper's Weekly to satirize current events, expose corruption, and ...

Jerusalem had changed since the time of Jesus. For example, Jesus’ crucifixion was described as taking place “near the city” and “outside the gate,” indicating that it happened outside of the city ...

Caesar’s adopted son and heir Octavian ultimately emerged victorious in the ensuing power struggles, and in 27 B.C.E., he took the new name Augustus and became Rome’s first emperor. With that, the ...

Archaeologists and historians have always known that Abarkuh, Iran, was an important historical city. Situated within the “golden triangle” of Shiraz, Yazd, and Isfahan, it functioned as a settlement ...

The Ark of the Covenant is first mentioned in the Book of Exodus, when God instructs Moses to tell the Israelites to build an ark (a chest) out of “acacia wood” that is “two and a half cubits long, a ...

Tickling may seem like a harmless and playful act, but it actually has a long and complex history that stretches across different cultures and eras. Its ability to immobilize and cause discomfort has ...

Linda Napolitano was a typical housewife living in Manhattan with her husband and two children. But everything changed on Nov. 30, 1989, when she claims three gray bipedal creatures abducted her from ...

Much to her surprise, Cosmopolitan magazine had sent another reporter to race Bly, a woman headed around the world but in the opposite direction. When confronted by the other woman while in Japan on ...

While the Los Angeles Mafia never rose to the same notoriety as its counterparts in New York and Chicago, the crime family infiltrated Hollywood, had a hand in the growth of Las Vegas, and terrorized ...

Morello and his brothers had been mobsters back in Sicily, and like Lupo, they continued their operations in New York. But surprisingly, Lupo and the Morellos had no quarrel — in fact, they merged ...

Also known as white exodus, white flight describes the migration of white people away from racially diverse cities and towns in America. In 1950, the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago was 96 percent ...