Ancient

Sold at 13 to a Plantation Owner — Eight Years Later, She Became the Truth He Could Not Escape In the spring of 1860, Rebecca […]

From time to time, a story appears online that seems designed to overwhelm the imagination. A newly discovered fossil, larger than any creature known to […]

Virginia, 1856.In a world where outward perfection dictated a woman’s future, I was often reminded that I did not meet the expectations of my community. […]

What happened after Susannah’s mother received that message was never meant for public view. What follows is taken from documented accounts, reform-era investigations, and surviving […]

Throughout human history, disease has been one of the most powerful and frightening forces shaping societies. Long before modern medicine, invisible pathogens could wipe out […]

For generations, people in the foothills of North Georgia have spoken quietly about certain places along the Etowah River—clearings where sound seems to carry oddly, […]

In the quiet hours before dawn, when museum galleries fall silent and artifacts seem to exist outside of time, a new kind of research is […]

The General German Commanders Could Not Predict: Why Patton Inspired Unusual Fear Among Allied commanders of the Second World War, few names provoked as much […]

Divers, “chariot wheels,” and the Red Sea: why the “Pharaoh’s army” story keeps going viral A viral claim can be built from remarkably little: a […]

In rural Alabama, stories have a way of surviving even when people try to bury them. They survive in courthouse ledgers that no one opens, […]