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With the outbreak of the Civil War, counterfeiters took the opportunity to increase their activity and pass their versions of the new national currency to unsuspecting pe

Where there is money, someone always seems to try to get it for nothing. Early colonial America was no exception.

For years, Matt Damon has been dazzling audiences with his screen presence. Here is some of his story.

Millions of specimens provide a fascinating insight into both animals and the mind of a 19th century scientist embroiled in the debate over evolution.

Fourteen years after the Salem Witch Trials, Ann Putnam, Jr. admits that she wrongly accused many for witchcraft.

A searing portrait of the destruction of a small Spanish town is kept alive by a painting by Picasso.

The AT&T and BellSouth Merge is evidence of company monopolies as giant corporations find merging more financially profitable than competition.

While Abraham Lincoln's death showed the divisions in the U.S., his burial showed the division among his own supporters.

To rail passengers, Pullman was a savior, but to his employees, Pullman was a devil. And when the millionaire died, many of those employees wanted to make sure he stayed

Since the founding of the country, counterfeiters had been devaluing currency through the use of fake bills and coins and the Civil War provided such an opportunity.

Though embalming the dead has been done for millennia, modern embalming methods that rival those of the ancient Egyptians have only been around for about 160 years.

With counterfeiting all the rage in Colonial America, it took a mother and housewife to turn it into a successful business.

Tituba is questioned and reveals some startling evidence concerning the devil and a little yellow bird.

One of the central debates in 20th Century epistemology concerns the concept of justification. This article gives a brief overview over some major theories in the field.

The results of possession by the devil is explored. Puritans believe that misfortune is caused by witchcraft.

Great Britain nearly won the Revolutionary War and not because of any battlefield move, but because the British nearly caused the financial collapse of the American Colon

Educators are concerned that an increase in violent toys and games will lead to an increase in aggression among children and they offer suggestions for concerned parents.

Self-portraits by French and German artists from the early 20th century feature the modernist sensibility of discontent with traditional European art.

Cashinahua men and women have keep themselves separated by jobs for as long as the people can remember. Men are hunters, and women are the caretakers of land and people.

Sounds ghoulish, but cemeteries can be interesting for their beautiful landscaping and history of the people buried there. You don't even need a Halloween costume.

Some consumers are always a problem for businesses. Dishonesty is a two-way street and business and government predation has a flip side, consumer predation of them.