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

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 ...

To this day, Grigori Rasputin remains nothing short of a legend. But despite all the myths and tall tales surrounding the “Mad Monk” of Tsarist Russia, there’s one thing that holds a particularly ...

Harriet Tubman was an African-American who overcame slavery to save others from a similar fate. Born in 1822 in Maryland, Tubman was born into slavery and was frequently beaten by her master before ...

Often described as spiritual messengers and attendants of God, Biblically accurate angels sometimes look very different from what you'd expect. In modern times, Biblical angels are almost always ...

From ghosts to UFO sightings to a Bigfoot-like creature, legends claim that the Bridgewater Triangle has long been home to a variety of unexplained occurrences. You may be familiar with the Bermuda ...

On Oct. 22, 2013, a ninth grader at Danvers High School in Massachusetts named Philip Chism did the unthinkable. At just 14, he brutalized his 24-year-old math teacher, Colleen Ritzer. The reportedly ...

In the past century, Las Vegas has transformed from a small train stop in the desert to the "Entertainment Capital of the World" — but how did it happen? The history of Las Vegas as a city starts when ...

In March 1981, Marianne Bachmeier opened fire in a crowded courtroom and killed Klaus Grabowski — the man on trial for murdering her 7-year-old daughter. On March 6, 1981, Marianne Bachmeier opened ...

Forty years before the British fought the Nazis, they used history's first concentration camps to commit genocide during the Boer War.

In 1983, a 61-year-old Australian potato farmer entered the first ultramarathon between Sydney and Melbourne. Few bet on the farmer winning the race. Not only did Cliff Young have a strange, slow ...

There’s plenty to interpret in the Bible, but on one point, the book is quite clear. After Jesus Christ was condemned to death by Pontius Pilate, the Christian Messiah was crucified at a place called ...