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

The last two elections for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which determined its ideological makeup, were the most expensive state court races in U.S. history.

Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling blocks a 19th-century law that for a time effectively banned abortion in nearly all instances.

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 kind, and for decades, the city’s strangest attraction.

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 ...