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 ...

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 1961, Hans Conrad Schumann leapt over the Berlin Wall — and his escape into West Germany was captured by a nearby photographer.

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 ...

Matthew Broderick's car accident in August 1987 left two women in Northern Ireland dead, though he faced minimal criminal charges.

Ancient inscriptions dating back to Egypt’s 12th Dynasty may have been written by Moses, the Hebrew prophet who led the Israelites out of slavery during the Exodus from Egypt, according to a new proto ...

In the high-altitude Australian rainforest, researchers identified a new species dubbed Acrophylla alta — and it may be the country's heaviest insect.

In February 2010, federal authorities raided the Women’s Medical Society, the West Philadelphia clinic of Dr. Kermit Gosnell. They were there to uncover a pill mill that Gosnell was running from the ...

About 5,500 years ago, people in Early Bronze Age Israel toiled to make flint Canaanite blades. Their methods were precise, sophisticated, and formulaic. And now, one of their ancient blade-making ...

The ruler of the Kingdom of Kush, Queen Amanirenas successfully resisted the Roman Army in the first century B.C.E.

Archaeology student Katie Joss found the 900-year-old carving at the historic Skaill Farm settlement on Rousay, one of Scotland's Orkney Islands that's known as the "Egypt of the north" due to its ...

Former Teamsters Union boss Jimmy Hoffa vanished without a trace on July 30, 1975, in suburban Detroit, and to this day, it's still unclear what happened to him.