She was dubbed “Typhoid Mary” by the New York American in 1909 and the name stuck. In a hand-written letter to her lawyer that June, Mallon complained. “I have been in fact a peep show for ...

Tony Allen knows all about the murder of Louisa Dunne. As a teenager he lived opposite “Mrs Dunne”, as he still calls her, on ...

Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout clears up several incorrectly recorded details from Newark resident Jeremiah ...

Despite its fishy name, salmonella has no connection to the underwater creature salmon. Rather, the story behind the bacteria is one of disputed credit between two American researchers. It's also ...

A new episode of the BBC's History's Secret Heroes podcast focuses on the Night Witches, a group of Russian female aviators ...

On the home page, Williams started by typing in the name “Mary.” “So there are 6,707 results with Mary,” he says, “associated with about 4,800 events, 421 places, and drawn from 19 ...

How an Ovid-quoting London broadsheet from the late seventeenth century spawned “Dear Abby,” Dan Savage, and Reddit’s Am I ...

Ryan Gosling is heading back to space, and no, this isn’t First Man 2.0. Project Hail Mary, the hotly anticipated sci‑fi ...

USC researchers have found a promising new brain scan marker that could better detect Alzheimer’s risk — but only for some.

Exeter men played a hidden role in one of America’s earliest battles—but you won’t find most of their names in the history ...

Many places in Michigan, including cities and streets, have French-origin names, a remnant of the state's past. Here's what to know.