Tricking and Treating has a History

By Regina Hansen, Boston University

How Gothic Buildings Became Associated with Halloween and the Supernatural

By Peter Lindfield, University of Stirling

Eight Things You Need to Know About Poltergeists

By Neil Dagnall and Ken Drinkwater

Children and Snakes, Monsters and Omens: Old Hoosier Legends

By Michelle Railey

The Spellbinding History of Cheese and Witchcraft

By Tabitha Stanmore, University of Bristol

As a patriot and a Black man, Colin Powell embodied the ‘two-ness’ of the African-American experience

By Chad Williams, Brandeis University

Edgar Allan Poe

By Robert Chambers.

Nine Things About Tab Clear

Tab Clear existed, y’all. It did. It really did.

Underneath all the makeup, who was the real Tammy Faye?

By John Wigger, University of Missouri-Columbia

Scientists Understood Physics of Climate Change in the 1800s –– Thanks to a Woman Named Eunice Foote

By Sylvia G. Dee, Rice University