Long before "Twilight" put Jacob on the map, werewolves have been the subject of countless movies, books and monster tales. Dating as far back as the ancient Greeks, werewolves and other shapeshifters ...

Myth and history are generally considered antithetical modes of explanation. Writers of each tend to distrust the data of the other. Many historians of the modern period see their task as one of ...

Se non è vero, è ben trovato (even if it isn't true, it makes a good story)—reflects a good deal of human history.

Status: We’re not going to say this is false, but when you have a history spanning three centuries and a campus tinged with stories of piracy and war, you’re bound to have more than a few creepy ...

In this lesson, students learn about the life of Kit Carson, a famous frontiersman from the 1800s. They then sift through a series of statements about Kit Carson to untangle fact and myth. While ...

Happy autumn and welcome back to the start of another season at the East Bronx History Forum. Many Bronx old-timers and some ...

In this lesson, students watch an excerpt from the episode Tumbling Tumbleweeds, in which they learn about Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers, a Western singing group famous for the song “Tumbling ...

It is certainly no secret that the American West is a land of myth. One does not have to look far into the historical record to realize that cowboys were mostly exploited wage laborers, that the vast ...

Coming out of the theatre, one of the many questions "The Passion of the Christ" raises is simply, "did it really happen?" Since the story is pulled straight from the documents Christians call the ...

OPINION: Part two of theGrio’s Black History Month series explores the myths, misunderstandings and mischaracterizations of the struggle for civil rights. OPINION: Part two of theGrio’s Black History ...