Today's creepy clown is a Halloween favorite—and a return to the subversive figure clowns represented in the past.

Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding Father’s words to present him as an abolitionist without mentioning he had enslaved more than 600 people in his lifetime.

An ancient Celtic Festival, the Catholic Church, the Irish Potato Famine, and community leaders turned Halloween into the holiday we know today. Here's the history.

History lessons are being wiped from the internet, and California is retreating from ethnic studies, as education swings away from curriculums that are seen as too progressive.

On a night in which the Knicks were looking for revenge from a Friday thumping, the Bulls were willing participants, ignoring some of the details that helped them start the year 5-0. The result was the first loss of the season.

The former NFL Offensive Player of the Year accounted for 173 yards of total offense (106 rushing, 67 receiving) and two total touchdowns to carry the 49ers to their NFC West-leading sixth win of the season and make a bit of NFL history in the process.

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Nevada Department of Education recognized a Las Vegas teacher as the state’s history teacher of the year. Mitchell Kalin, a recently retired history teacher from Leavitt Middle School in Las Vegas, was honored as Nevada’s 2025 Gilder Lehrman History Teacher of the Year during a ceremony at his school on Oct. 15.

Harrison Ford rips into Donald Trump over climate change and says: 'I don’t know of a greater criminal in history.'

Trump's long-awaited meeting with the Chinese president. A 50-year pattern of sex abuse, silence and cover-up in the world's largest Pentecostal denomination. And Hurricane Melissa's death toll rises as it causes more destruction in the Caribbean.

The short story collection doesn’t just touch on cultural themes Twain would have appreciated, it deals in the sort of wordplay and conscious undermining of literary formats he popularized.