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These seven artifacts show us that even ancient civilizations couldn’t escape taxes.

Rather than expressing love and affection, these cards were designed to offend.

When the New Madrid earthquakes rattled the Midwest in 1811 and 1812, William Clark, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, convinced the government to step in.

As families lost one loved one after another in the 19th century, some believed the undead were preying upon them.

The monarch’s chaotic love life led to an unstable succession, foreign policy changes and a break with Rome.

Among tools people used in the past were moss, sponge on a stick, ceramic pieces and bamboo 'spatulas.'

For more than a century, people visiting Gettysburg have claimed to hear phantom footsteps, ghostly drumbeats and echoes of musket fire.

The arrival of the first captives to the Jamestown Colony, in 1619, is often seen as the beginning of slavery in America—but enslaved Africans arrived in North America as early as the 1500s.

Explore surprising facts about America’s first permanent English settlement.

From contaminated raw milk to tainted meat, outbreaks have spread rapidly through the country's food supply chain, with deadly consequences.

Santa kidnapping children and murderous mice were par for the course in the Victorian-era Christmas card tradition.