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When Europe Feared the Dead In the early 1700s, Europe found itself haunted by an unexpected terror. It was not the looming wars with...

The Middle Ages were never simple. They were a world of contrasts—of glittering cathedrals and plague pits, of knights in shining armor...

Few stories are as deeply ingrained in American history as that of the Pilgrims  — the English settlers who sailed on the Mayflower  in...

Light has always held deep symbolic meaning in human culture. It is the boundary between safety and danger, knowledge and ignorance, hope...

Few questions are as universal as what happens after death. Across history and cultures, people have imagined the soul’s journey beyond...