Along with a history of racist wartime propaganda, other forms of hateful posters and political flyers were persistent throughout the 20th century. The infamous white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan ...

New evidence regarding the Shroud of Turin suggests that it could not have been placed atop a human body, but only a statue instead.

At the age of 16, Robin Lee Graham had set sail from southern California on his 24-foot sloop, the Dove. He planned to ...

In August 1945, the world changed forever with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The first use of atomic bombs in war, the attack brought hell to both Japanese cities, killing tens of ...

Known as nijū hibakusha, or "double survivor," Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived the atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

Conspiracy theorists claim that the Tartarian Empire, also known as Tartaria and Tartary, was an advanced ancient civilization in Central Asia that was deliberately erased.

Scientists have long known that the blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived. What hasn’t been known until now, however, is that the ocean giant roamed the planet far earlier than ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, Diana Davies was one of the most well-known photojournalists documenting early LGBTQ rights activism in New York.

Alfonso de Portago was the son of a Spanish nobleman who died in a Ferrari crash during Italy's Mille Miglia race on May 12, 1957 at age 28.

Between 1865 and 1900, tens of thousands of settlers moved to Montana to become gold and copper miners, cattle ranchers, and brothel owners — leading to conflict with the Native Americans who already ...

In 1954, archaeologists working in southern Italy uncovered a number of bronze jars left at an ancient Greek shrine. The jars were filled with a sticky orange substance, though researchers were ...

From the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to the Temptations and the Beach Boys, these bands symbolized the rapid social and cultural changes that defined the '60s. The 1960s was a time of major ...