The Sea Peoples terrorized Egypt and the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age, but their identity and origins remain mysterious to this day. In the 12th century B.C.E., Bronze Age civilizations began ...

In January 1959, a group of young hikers set off on a journey through the Ural Mountains in then-Soviet Russia. About a month later, all of the hikers were discovered dead and scattered around their ...

Many Americans are taught that the Pilgrims and Indians gathered for a historic feast at Plymouth in 1621, but the true story of the first Thanksgiving is far more complicated. For as long as anyone ...

Teddy Roosevelt, Helen Keller, and other revered historical figures who supported the eugenics movement at the height of its pre-WWII popularity.

Brittany Norwood crushed her co-worker Jayna Murray's skull and severed her spinal cord in a brutal 2011 attack now known as the "Lululemon murder." Lululemon Athletica, the company that sells ...

One man's 1930 anti-marijuana propaganda campaign started a panic that would last for decades — and still isn't over.

First opened in 1970 and shut down in 2011, the Élan School was the "last resort" for parents of teens with behavioral problems — and allegedly a site of systemic abuse. For some, the idyllic woods of ...

When her Nicoleño tribe left California's Channel Islands for the mainland, Juana Maria stayed behind for 18 years. The classic 1960 novel Island of the Blue Dolphins still captures the imaginations ...

Garry Hoy was fascinated by the physical robustness of modern architecture. So much so, that he regularly performed a party trick in which he would throw his full bodyweight against the windows of his ...

When the Americans first arrived in the Philippines in 1898, during the Spanish-American War, the Filipinos believed that their independence would soon be ensured. The Filipinos had attempted a ...

“A dreadful accident has happened at the Flannans,” reported a ship captain in 1900. After a lighthouse went dark in the wild islands north of Scotland, a ship traveled to the Flannan Isles to ...

In 1992, Americans watched South Central Los Angeles go up in flames on the news. Tensions inside the neighborhood — a mix of racial minority demographics long plagued by urban blight — reached a ...