The world of ancient history is filled with captivating stories that have captured our imagination for generations. From lost civilizations to legendary warriors, these tales have shaped how we view ...

This is the "big question" — the one that has been with us in one way or another since the beginning of history. Every culture that we have a record of has asked the very same question: How did the ...

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

Throughout history, people have come up with myths and legends to explain the world around them. Most stay exactly that: fascinating stories that are untrue, exaggerated, or only loosely based on ...

In Tom Edison’s Shaggy Dog, a short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Edison discovers that dogs are intellectually superior beings. They’re so smart, in fact, that the canines found the easiest possible ...

Northwestern’s Daisy Hernández explores how citizenship was constructed and has changed throughout American history as a tool of exclusion.

A professor explains how scientists' limited and faulty understanding of the brain hundreds of years ago gave birth to the erroneous idea that amnesia induced by a blow to the head can be cured by a ...