Harroun Wins First Indy 500: Motorsport Born in 1911

Every tree within fifteen kilometres of Jerusalem. Gone. The Romans needed timber for their siege engines, and Titus didn't hesitate—ancient olive groves, orcha…

A tax collector named John Bampton demanded money from villagers in Brentwood, Essex—three times what they'd already paid. The men of Fobbing told him no. Just …

Jerome of Prague watched Jan Hus burn at the same council a year earlier, then recanted his own beliefs to save himself. Didn't work. He spent eleven months in …

English commanders stacked a tribunal with pro-English clerics to condemn Joan of Arc for heresy, violating ecclesiastical law by denying her legal counsel and …

In 1431, during the Hundred Years' War, Joan of Arc was executed by burning at the stake in Rouen, France, by an English-dominated tribunal. Her martyrdom galva…

Moderate Utraquist forces destroyed the radical Taborite army at Lipany, killing their leader Prokop the Great and ending twenty years of Hussite religious warf…