“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Nine years after his conservative family was featured on the ABC show "Wife Swap," Jacob Stockdale fatally shot his mother and brother before attempting to kill himself. The show Wife Swap has a light ...

It was called “The Greatest Show on Earth.” It was the merging of two leading circus shows, the most exciting juggernaut of entertainment in the world. One of the show’s most famous entertainers was a ...

In a world where every idea seems divisive, it can help to know there are at least a few things that the world as a whole agrees on. Time, the calendar, and the basic idea that history as we know it ...