It probably helps that a lot of historical events were quite funny, from one perspective. For example, Rama IV, the king of Siam, offered to provide the United States with war elephants during the ...

Imagine a friend of yours just woke up from a 15-year coma. They ask you to catch them up on politics, and once you get past the most obvious thing — “Wait, who is the president?” — you ...

Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud's youngest child, became a formidable force within psychoanalysis, focusing on child psychology. Initially a teacher, she switched to an earlier interest, psychoanalysis ...