April 5 marks Easter Island discovery, guillotine debut, Nile expeditions, Warsaw Uprising start, Ravi Shankar's rise, and ...

In the U.S., capital punishment is resurgent. What lessons can we glean from France’s successful campaign to abolish it?

The discovery of a Nazi-era guillotine in a Bavarian museum warehouse has triggered a national debate about whether it should be put on display. The guillotine was used to kill at least 1,000 ...