Explore Día de los Muertos origins, traditions, and global impact celebrating Mexican ancestral remembrance with altars, marigolds, and festive rituals.

In the latest Paint by Numbers, Crikey lists the reasons the nation should stop the race that stops the nation.

The route from the land of the dead to San Andrés Mixquic, a little town just outside Mexico City, is lined with marigolds. Angel Jiménez del Aguila, who died in 2010, need only follow the trail of ...

Historian Marc David Baer calls the Ottomans "very much a European empire" and "the unacknowledged part of the story the West ...

Candidates for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, and for mayor of New York City, campaigned in the final hours before the ...

The 1927 flood remains Vermont's most devastating natural disaster in state history. When the water finally receded, dozens ...

What do millions of people around the world have in common every November 1st They observe All Saints’ Day, a solemn occasion that honors the lives ...

People around the world are celebrating the Day of the Dead, blending pre-Columbian rituals with the Roman Catholic observance of All Saint’s ...

Reedy hijacks Myrtle and creates the woman’s backstory. In this lyrically written book, Myrtle emerges as witty, smart, and funny — and tragic, because you know from the start what lies ahead.

In the town of Arocutin, western Mexico, families spent the night in candlelit cemeteries, welcoming the souls of their loved ...