The Black Death swept across Europe in the 14th century, killing an estimated one-third of the population. Spread primarily by fleas carried on rats, the disease moved rapidly through towns and cities ...

Medieval disease was brutal because people faced familiar illnesses without vaccines, antibiotics, antivirals, or modern ...

Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the possibility – however unlikely – of survival.

For those who lived through it, the era of the Black Death must have been a “living nightmare”, said Katherine Harvey in The Times. During its first wave, between 1347 and 1353, the disease typically ...

The death toll from a drone strike on a student dorm in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine has risen to 16, with most of the victims young women, Russian officials have said.

From the Black Death to the French Revolution, music has long been affected by the upheavals of history. Rebecca Franks ...

Growing up in Dublin, I learned navigate life in fight-or-flight mode. Yet even now, our leaders are ducking a vital conversation, says Seán Gallen, a Martinican-Irish writer and film-maker based in B ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrates how radiocarbon dating can reveal ...

May 13 (Reuters) - Louisiana officials reached a tentative $4.8 million settlement with the family of Ronald Greene, an unarmed Black motorist who died in May 2019 in ‌an incident of police violence, ...

What was supposed to be a celebratory start to Maryland's biggest racing weekend turned tragic Friday when a horse died after the opening race on Black-Eyed Susan Day at Laurel Park. The death renewed ...

Six American heroes who gave their lives in combat deserve to be remembered this Memorial Day, from Delta Force legends to a WWII bomber navigator.