The final journey for London’s dead, circa 1860, was a trip on the London Necropolis Railway. The train would take the corpse and the accompanying mourners out of the city to the sprawling Brookwood ...

Psychiatric facilities and their patients have long been fodder for horror stories. As historian Troy Rondinone writes, films of the 1970s harnessed and shaped the American public’s understanding of ...

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952) is considered one of the great women photographers in American history. She made a name for herself as the first established woman photographer in Washington, DC, ...

The Matter of Britain has had an enduring influence on popular media, from films and documentaries to commercials and music videos. Avalon, Camelot, the Holy Grail, and Excalibur have found a place in ...

Pad Thai is among the most popular offerings at Thai restaurants all over the world, thanks to its distinctive yet approachable sweet-sour-savory flavor profile. But as food writer and critic ...

Sporting a winged tiara and star-spangled bustier and gifted with superhuman strength and flight, Darna could be called the Filipino version of Wonder Woman. But unlike the Amazon princess, she’s also ...

The Germans began firing on Paris again on the fifth of August 1918. Mary Josephine Booth was familiar with the sound of the air raid sirens by then. If they came at night, she would jump out of her ...

We live in an age of hardened borders and militarized frontiers. Particularly since the September 11, 2001 attacks and then the Covid-19 pandemic, the supposedly borderless world of globalization has ...

In the second half of the nineteenth century, before the rise of public libraries, many people in remote parts of the United States got their hands on new books thanks to traveling salespeople. As ...