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

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.

When talking about the fundament, some terms have slipped through the crack of lexical history—so please enjoy these old and enjoyable terms for the hindquarters.

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.

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.”

Their (often literal) blood feud is a relatively modern creation. So how did vampires and werewolves end up at each other’s throats?

In the 18th and 19th centuries, robbing graves of their corpses for dissection at medical schools was an all too common practice—and sometimes, enraged citizens rose up in protest.

The theremin—a spooky instrument that scored the biggest sci-fi films of the 1950s—was invented by accident.

This all-new translation of the Homer epic is six years in the making.

For decades, a man dressed head to toe in leather moved through Connecticut and New York. Who was he, and what did he want?

The ‘phone phreakers’ of the 1960s and 1970s indirectly led to the tech boom of today.