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

New research from the University of Portsmouth reveals that during the Great Plague of 1665, Londoners relied on published death statistics to make critical daily decisions about where to go, whom to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Preface. Toward a new history of death -- Introduction. Mexico's national totem ; Death and the postimperial condition ; Purgatorius ; Intimacy with death ; Mexico's third totem ; Genealogies of ...