The first volume of Edward Gibbon’s magisterial The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was published in 1776, the year of the Declaration of Independence.

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Dedication of Westminster Cathedral, the mother church of the Roman Catholic Church in ...

Edward Hugh Okun, who stole $126 million in one of the largest and most brazen fraud schemes ever prosecuted in Virginia, died this month in a federal prison. His death proved U.S. District Judge ...

Clive Stafford Smith, who is retired from Death Row law, continues to campaign against the penalty and claims the US is ...

In 1922, a New Jersey minister and a choir singer were found shot in a field. The scandal captivated the nation, but no one ...

The death of Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of York, in the tower, 1483; 92.1 x 127 cm. (36.3 x 50 in.) close. Medium Oil on Panel Size 92.1 x 127 cm. (36.3 x 50 in.) Sale Consectetur Estimate ...

Vietnam veteran Richard Gerald Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi nearly 50 years after being sentenced to death ...

The young conqueror fell suddenly and fatally ill at an all-night feast. Now, a Stanford historian has found a potential ...

The family of Edwina Marter issued two statements Wednesday following the execution of Richard Jordan, who was convicted of ...

Richard Jordan is set to be executed in Mississippi on Wednesday, 49 years after he kidnapped and killed Edwina Marter, a ...