Booth Killed: Manhunt Ends After Lincoln Assassination

He climbed 6,000 feet of rock just to read his own letters in the wind. Petrarch didn't come for the view; he came because he felt trapped inside a stone tower.…

A fresco of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child reportedly materialized on the wall of a half-finished church in Genazzano, Italy. This event transformed the s…

Giuliano's heart stopped under a chalice, his blood soaking the altar steps while Lorenzo ran for his life. The Pazzi conspirators thought they'd toppled Floren…

Blood soaked the marble altar as knives struck during High Mass in the Duomo. Lorenzo de' Medici survived by diving into the sacristy, but his brother Giuliano …

A muddy river, a crowded church, and a father who needed to pay his parish dues before the local constable knocked. That was the cost of William Shakespeare's e…

English settlers stepped ashore at Cape Henry to establish the first permanent English colony in North America, a move that planted the seeds for future America…