Dr. Howard Markel

Imagine the horror of being an artist of light and color who starts to lose their sight.

Friday would have been Capote's 98th birthday, but he died a month shy of his 60th year, a victim to…

The night Twain was born, there was a brilliant view of Halley's Comet flying right over his hometown.

Born on this day 458 years ago, Galileo refused to be silent about how the solar system worked.

Braille first encountered an early predecessor to his tactile writing system in 1821, while he was still an adolescent.

For Mexico's National Institute of Cardiology, the artist portrayed a pantheon of heart doctors.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music; he is American music," legendary composer Jerome Kern once wrote. Yet for…

In today's socially mediated 24/7 news cycle, it is difficult to imagine just how taboo the topic of prescription opiate…

This minor genius of mirth lost his left eye at the age of 6.

On Sept. 9, 1921, a young actress named Virginia Rappe died of a ruptured urinary bladder, days after a Labor…