The sensational and brutal case of Cordelia Poirier (née Viau) became one of Quebec’s most notorious crimes of the late 19th century. In 1897, she and her lover conspired to murder her husband in the ...

Students at a prestigious university in the United Kingdom recently unearthed a likely execution pit on the outskirts of town — dating back 1,200 years. The University of Cambridge announced the ...

This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. An 18th-century copper still from Morocco, essential equipment in a Muslim physician’s medical kit.

David O. Russell’s Amsterdam, a star-studded mystery-comedy set in the heady interwar years of the 1930s, starts with a tagline: “A lot of this actually happened.” It’s a nice trick—a way to harness ...

When award-winning journalist, and host of The Age’s Naked City podcast, John Silvester started reporting on Melbourne’s criminal underworld, pubs closed at 10pm. Almost 50 years later, the city is ...