Modern criminals might think that today’s punishments are too harsh, but they don’t compare to the severe sentences that were doled out during America’s early days. Some of those penalties will be ...

FOR years, the lives of incarcerated women in colonial Guyana existed only in fragments, scattered across disciplinary reports, punishment books, and archival ...

What happened to bad people in the good old days? They were shot by firing squad, hanged, burned at the stake so their souls would perish and they couldn’t rest in peace, sent to row ships, flogged in ...

In the history of any town, there are going to be a flurry of firsts at the outset. The first time settlers step foot on the land. The first home built to shelter its new residents. The first leaders ...