Gathered around the table in the kitchen of their family's Andover Township home — on a 117-acre property known as Blind Brook Farm — Cece Pattison and her children Kathy and David, as well as Jack ...

Just before Christmas 1951, Dr. Ralph Russell voluntarily checked himself into the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm to receive treatment for drug addiction. He would spend the next four months receiving ...

Ed Gein was fixated on death, even robbing graves, and he killed two women in Plainfield, Wisconsin, where he lived on a farm ...

Americans are divided on whether U.S. culture and way of life was better in the 1950s, with white Christians more likely to say it was, a new survey finds. Why it matters: Despite the segregation and ...

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