Long before trick-or-treating, Halloween was born from Samhain—an eerie Celtic night when the gates of the "Otherworld," an alternate spiritual realm in Celtic culture,...
They had just escaped one king—the last thing America's founders wanted was to create another. In the sweltering summer of 1787, men gathered in...
In 1970, a Smithsonian scientist warned that 80% of all animal species would vanish by 1995. A Stanford professor predicted hundreds of millions would...