HISTORY

Whether you call it Mischief Night, Devil's Night, or something else, it all means one thing: wanton destruction of property.

From uniting the Crowns to whipping witch hunters into a frenzy, King James VI and I left his mark on history.

The baseball icon’s modest Oklahoma home is getting the fractional ownership treatment.

The medieval era wasn’t just a bunch of flat Earthers feasting and jousting.

Gustav Klimt’s ‘The Kiss’ is a deceptively simple portrait of lust and love. But beyond that glittery gold leaf, the work is full of fascinating facts. 

Novelists have used everything from real killers to newsworthy hostage situations to literal white whales to craft their fiction.

The Backstreet Boys’ 1999 smash “I Want It That Way,” which celebrates its 25th anniversary in April 2024, is among the definitive songs—if not the definitive song—of the ’90s teen-pop explosion.

It’s more than ice and polar bears.

From Elvis Presley wearing a velvet suit to meet Richard Nixon to the migrant mother who unwittingly became the face of the Great Depression, these are the true stories behind a few iconic photographs from history.

It took more than 70 years and tons of volunteer labor to create “the definitive record of the English language”—including an assist from a murderer. Get to know the Oxford English Dictionary better.

Here’s how a wave of mysterious deaths in the late 1970s and early 1980s among Southeast Asian refugees living in America inspired Wes Craven to pen his 1984 horror classic, “A Nightmare on Elm Street.”

Technically, only the figures that function as water spouts are actual gargoyles.