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Centuries after Salem, witch hunts persist
The Week via Yahoo Canada News· 4 months agoPhoto collage of symbols of witchcraft arrayed together on a layer that's tearing off to reveal a close-up photo of a woman screaming in anguish. The...
33 Facts About US History That'll Challenge Everything You Learned In Grade School
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 7 months ago1.Thanksgiving does not have the history you likely grew up learning it did. First of all, the...
Bloodsuckers or bloated corpses? How science has tried to explain vampire myths.
Business Insider via Yahoo Canada News· 8 months agoNosferatu creeps up the stairs at the exhibition "Vampires: Art, History, Myths And...
True Mexican stories become legends in Fernanda Melchor's genre-defying nonfiction
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoIn “This Is Not Miami,” her new book of not-quite-nonfiction, Fernanda Melchor tells the true story of a lynching in her home of Veracruz, a state on the Gulf Coast of Mexico. In 1996, a man ...