Claudia Dimuro is a trends reporter and host of "Today in Pa.," an Keystone Award-winning podcast which covers the (sometimes overlooked) stories that are (hopefully) important to Pennsylvania.

The ancient reputation of Vikings as bloodthirsty raiders on cold northern seas has undergone a radical change in recent decades. A kinder, gentler, and more fashionable Viking emerged. (See “Did ...

A certain resistance to discussion about the toll of American slavery isn’t confined to the least savory corners of the Internet. Last year, in an unsigned (and now withdrawn) review of historian Ed ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were foreigners and, unlike in modern times, Roman ...

Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property ...

Between 10 and 12 million Africans were torn from their homelands and shipped across the Atlantic. The transatlantic slave trade reshaped continents and left scars still felt today. Blood pressure ...

The Stray Cats have been forced to scrap their tour after singer and guitarist Brian Setzer’s ‘serious illness’. The 80s rockabilly group were set to tour the US this year with 21 dates, kicking off ...