Delve deep into the deadliest example of witch hunt hysteria in the history of colonial North America, with The Salem Witch Trials, a series of prosecutions of men and women accused of witchcraft in the Massachusetts colony between February 1692 and May 1...

AMC Hollywood Fashion Machine episode focusing on the legendary costume designer Edith Head. Includes interviews with actresses Tippi Hedren and Jane Wyman; authors Paddy Calistro and David Chierichetti; costume designers Theadora Van Runkle, Oleg Cassini...

Did you ever hear about the time Madeline Kahn used a failing sitcom to introduce America to radical queer theater, convincing ABC to broadcast an appearance by one of the most subversive drag artists in the country? This is the story of how Charles Ludla...

Found in the ashes is what appears to be a pizza. But...is it? Kind of and yet kind of not. Check it out.

This video delves into the history, legends, and mysteries surrounding the Knights Templar. Established around 1119 and officially recognized by the Pope in 1129, this group of French knights swore to protect Christian pilgrims in Jerusalem and the Holy L...

Americans love pretzels, consuming around 181 million every year. But where do pretzels come from? Can we really credit one country with this tasty invention? Also, why do Philly pretzels look like that?

The unsung hero of deep dish pizza is a woman named Alice Mae Redmond, who was the head chef at famous pizzerias like Pizzeria Uno and Gino’s. It seems like wherever she went, that was the best pizza place in town. She’s also the one who changed deep dish...

In the early twentieth-century the transformative, influential ideas from modern culture and ideas led to an explosion of new, radical, and innovative styles in art. This is when the modern age completes its break away from the 500 year old, artistic do...

Bread is the stuff of life, and i has a LOONG and storied role in the story of humans. Today on Weird History Food, we are going back in time to he beginnings of bread! Form ancient Mesopotamia all the way up to a most favorite 2020 Pandemic Era pasttime.

In this comprehensive video, we unravel the rich tapestry of Greek and Roman funerary practices, revealing how these ancient civilizations perceived the soul's immortality and its continued existence beyond the grave.

The Jacquard machine is a device fitted to a loom that simplifies the process of manufacturing textiles with such complex patterns as brocade, damask and matelassé. The resulting ensemble of the loom and Jacquard machine is then called a Jacquard loom.

The extraordinary legacy of Philippe de Montebello, who served for 31 years as Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This recipe, from 1714, comes from just a few years before the English started using the word “waffle” and calls this dish “Dutch-Wafers” instead. The origins of waffles go back to around the 9th or 10th century, when they started using patterned irons to...

Chop suey is a dish from American Chinese cuisine and other forms of overseas Chinese cuisine, generally consisting of meat and eggs, cooked quickly with vegetables such as bean sprouts, cabbage and celery.

The film guides us through history, beginning at 1,000 BC, and taking into account Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Victorian era, the jazz age, the importance of pearls in Chinese and Indian history, and even the revolutionary cultured pe...