The illustrator dredged the depths of his own subconscious—and tapped into something collectively screwy in America.

Perhaps one of the most fascinating sections of Rest In Pieces for Mother’s Day shoppers is their collection of Victorian mourning arts and mementos. These pieces connect directly to how mothers and ...

Carrington’s drolly bizarre and mysterious works ... of slavery and the post-emancipation era, from the work of 19th century photographer James Presley Ball to the reflections of contemporary ...

Is that a taxidermied two-headed calf next to a collection of Victorian mourning jewelry?” Welcome to Rest In Pieces, Richmond’s gloriously macabre oddity shop where the unusual isn’t just accepted – ...

His stark and stunning work for Playboy, The New York Times and Manhattan’s underground papers heralded a new era of ...

Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Allen County Public Library In the mid-19th century, election ballots were created by political parties, not the government. Local ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

The bones of a 19th-century toddler show medical experimentation was taking place during the industrialization of France. Zinn, et al (2025) International Journal of Paleopathology The Industrial ...

The US has had a military presence in Greenland since World War II. But an abandoned underground military site poses a major environmental threat as the planet warms. Researchers found thousands ...

“So I think the mistake being made with crude tariffs is it’s kind of a 19th century sort of solution or response to a 21st century economy.” The pharmaceutical sector is a particular ...

In the late 19th century, a Scottish immigrant named Williamina Fleming went from working as a maid to a career as a pioneering astronomer. The claim that Fleming went from being a maid to ...