Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: These are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810). As the United States' first ...

Looking so far into the future is so difficult as to be a fool's errand. But it's fun!

Sixty-four people suffered through sweltering Texas heat in the back of a smuggling trailer, leaving less than a dozen ...