Polio left Martha Lillard unable to breath on her own, while an iron lung kept her alive for seven decades. WORLD’s Krisen Flavin tells her story.
A century after Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared, WORLD’s Emma Eicher tells how A.A. Milne, a veteran of the Great War, created a place where he could laugh again
From Babylonian astronomers to Roman gods and Norse mythology, the names of our weekdays have traveled a long linguistic road. George Grant follows the trail.
Seventy years after Cecil B. DeMille brought The Ten Commandments to the big screen, WORLD’s Max Belz revisits its scale, style, and ingenious effects.
WORLD History Book: After deciding that translating newspapers wasn’t enough to help Cuba, Ana Montes set out to get a job in U.S. intelligence. Mary Muncy traces how she entered the DIA already recruited—and stayed there for 17 years.
WORLD History Book: Congress in 1789 turned an outlined judiciary into an operating court system. WORLD’s Mary Reichard reports.
Some people are insisting that the Shroud of Turin is physical evidence of the resurrection–what if it is?
Digitization, bit rot, and the death of distinctly human history
The proliferation of anti-Semitism proves that too many people have abandoned the reality of the past
