Sidestep: Adventures Into History on MSN

We thought it was a cemetery - it was something else

Deep in the woods of the abandoned New Hope community, we follow 1900 maps and aerial imagery to locate long-forgotten homesites and ruins. What we find includes plantation-era brick, massive ...
This relates to a theme found in this week’s Torah portion, which speaks of Moses’ father-in-law Yitro, who had explored ...
A 19th-century sculptor of Black and Indigenous ancestry was acclaimed, then overlooked. But a groundswell of scholars and artists are keeping her flame alive in new projects.
For more than a decade, a 53-year-old man has spent billions of dong of his own money to relocate and care for hundreds of unmarked graves in Hanoi. This quiet journey reflects his deep compassion for ...
A longtime House member of a key legislative committee has raised concern about the College of Charleston’s plans to build a dormitory on an 18th century burial ground near the campus.
I struggled out from beneath the covers, flannel sheets, fleece blanket with two comforters piled on top, felt the chill in the room and immediately headed for the wood stove. Glancing at the front ...
Paupers’ graves are meant for the forgotten. But what happens when the people buried there were never forgotten at all? In Cape Town, an undertaker’s alleged fraud has exposed a failure of the ...
Save this for a weekend drive when you want quiet scenery, local history, and places that feel like time hit pause.
Take the back roads, walk the small cemetery respectfully, and enjoy that unsettling, time-capsule feeling you only get in places the modern world forgot.
Lambert Castle’s reopening highlights Paterson silk wealth and contrasts with the unfinished Paulison castle that once rose ...
The murder of O'Jays member Frankie Little Jr. has been a cold case for more than 50 years. Now, a retired journalist ...
We give people their history. Then we try to inject those stories and those people into the communities that they’re from,” the Bloomfield man said.