Category: U.S. Historical News

Sparta was a city-state in ancient Greece and is best remembered for its fierce people, the Spartans. The Spartans were warriors. From boyhood until death,…

From ancient Rome to the Aztecs, funeral customs were unique, yet familiar, events that marked the passage from life to death. 1. Burial and Dirt…

Ancient Athens, a city-state of ancient Greece, may have been the birthplace of democracy, but it was a far cry different from democratic societies of…

Tar and feathering was a popular method of intimidation, torture, and vigilanteism in the early 1900s. There were numerous reports of tar and feather parties…

Men had some strange fears when it came to giving women the right to vote. Both Republican and Democratic men shook with fear at the…

Who wouldn’t love the opportunity to find a mummified body inside their home? Most people would not appreciate it, I’m sure, but it has happened…

If you have never watched the original silent film “The Birth of a Nation” (1915), you can watch the entire movie for free below. Before…

Plenty of strange things have happened inside the almighty bathtub and history is full of both disturbing and chuckle-worthy bathtub stories. Did you know that…

There are reasons why children today find cellars so creepy. For one, people would often place dead bodies in the cellar for safe keeping until…

If you love fairy tales and The Mother Goose Rhymes, then you have probably heard of French author Charles Perrault, but what you probably didn’t…