The libertine's controversial work saw him locked up for 32 years of his life in prisons and an insane asylum. De Sade's name even gave rise to the words sadism and sadomasochism. For 200 years ...

Now, nearly two centuries later, a second such book has emerged.

A nearly 200-year-old log cabin has been discovered within the walls of a dilapidated house near Ball, Louisiana. The cabin, believed to be one of the first structures built in the area ...

After being exploited for decades by France, Haiti ended up forking over huge sums of money to its former colonizer. Now, the ...

And so they're recording weather data in places where we simply don't have any other way of knowing what the weather was like on a particular day at a particular place 150, 200, 250 years ago.