This article and accompanying videos are part of a series that will delve into the history of the Bataan Memorial Death March ...

1. The Universality of Death -- 2. Before and after the Fact -- 3. The Mythical Place of Death -- 4. The Quick and the Dead: Relations across the Grave -- 5. Only Flesh and Blood -- 6. Political ...

Determining whether a death is murder or natural often comes down to forensics. In New York City, a medical examiner and his assistant redefined how to do it. Author Deborah Blum, a Pulitzer Prize ...

The 14th century in Europe was marked by a demographic upheaval of unprecedented scale with the Black Death. An interdisciplinary study published in Communications Earth & Environment reconstructs the ...

Kenya: The death penalty goes back many decades. The practice that was first introduced in Kenya in 1893 was, however, not widespread in the pre-colonial era. The high number of successful appeals ...