The tragic Case of Marie Boyer that caused a sensation in 19th Century France and is stall talked about in Marseille today.

UK repeals 19th-century law In the amendment passed by British MPs, parts of the 1861 law will be revoked. The bill was originally passed by an all-male parliament that deemed that ending a ...

Before true crime and reality TV, there was the Paris Morgue—where crowds queued to see the dead. It was the first of its ...

In 19th-century Paris, the Paris Morgue became a popular attraction, drawing crowds eager to view unclaimed bodies. This fascination with death, a precursor to modern true crime entertainment ...

Certainly, the beliefs of many 19th-century Melburnians appear equally odd. The pseudoscience of Phrenology held that the shape of people’s skulls denoted their character.

His queerness was seemingly known but not openly discussed. Close analysis of Clarkson’s life illuminates several possibilities as to how queerness was codified in the 19th century.

The policing of a weekend protest in London against Israel’s genocide in Gaza was alarmingly heavy-handed, bearing troubling echoes of the repression faced by early 19th-century reformers in the ...

The first recorded murder in Malta in the 19th century with the victim being found at sea was that of Wenzu Bonanno, whose corpse was spotted floating in the sea in Marsa on November 30, 1888.

Investigators have determined that a skull discovered in the wall of an Illinois home in 1978 was that of an Indiana teenager who died more than 150 years ago, authorities announced Thursday.

Americans can learn valuable 21st-century lessons by studying a 19th-century crime, historian Richard E. Turley Jr. says. He outlined "Lessons We Can Learn from the Mountain Meadows Massacre ...

SPRING LAKE − A fire destroyed a borough home dating back to the late 19th century, sending one firefighter to a local hospital, an official said. No one else was injured.