It contains the relics of deaths past — a replica of Abraham Lincoln’s casket, Civil War-era embalming tools and intricately designed mourning jewelry made from deceased loved ones’ hair. Despite the ...

In the old days, Egyptians would bury a pharaoh and throw in a slave or a wife or two to keep him company in the afterlife. Romans would carry torches in a funeral procession. Colonials would head to ...

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum announced last week that it has created a new exhibit displayed in President Wilson’s Birthplace, a Presbyterian Manse, illustrating 19th century ...

Death can come at any time, in any place. Whenever, and wherever, it occurs, there’s an excellent chance the dead person’s loved ones will mark the passing with food. Lots of food. “You can ask any ...

History is usually about dead people. But museums and textbooks tend to focus on what those people did while they were alive. Aiming to fix that, a mobile exhibit that rolls into Eagan on Friday looks ...

At the post office, a little bunch of us was sitting in the shade, talking about one thing and another, when somebody said he'd been patching a roof in this heat and it was "about as much fun as ...

If the funeral lunch is at Przybylo’s White Eagle in Niles, you can count on having pierogies, but when the dearly departed were laid out in the parlor, there wasn’t enough time to prepare the ...

The Queen’s funeral will be incomparable in scale and grandeur as the nation gathers to say its solemn final farewell to its longest reigning monarch. Through the centuries, customs and rituals have ...