Published 200 years ago, ‘The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner’ depicts a sibling rivalry in formally ...

The Code Duello, covering the practice of dueling and points of honor, was drawn up and settled at Clonmel Summer Assizes, 1777, by gentlemen-delegates of Tipperary, Galway, Sligo, Mayo and ...

By 1804, dueling had become an American fixture. And for another thirty years or more, its popularity would continue to grow. Like many early American customs, dueling was imported. Starting in ...