After the Civil War, Lee received several letters requesting support for the erection of Confederate memorials.

Lost for nearly a century and a half, a grainy black and white portrait of John Quincy Adams has reemerged—and it’s now considered the oldest surviving original photograph of a US president in existence.

The patron saint of physicians is going home.

Confederate monuments are and always have been monuments to white supremacy.

Today the phrase 'all roads leads to Rome' means that there's more than one way to reach the same goal. But in Ancient Rome, all roads really did lead to the eternal city, which was at the centre of a vast road network.

New research has shed fresh light on how animals first appeared on the Earth. It is a story spanning hundreds of millions of years, of entire mountain ranges ground to dust by vast glaciers that once covered the planet and of dramatic climate change that ushered in a new biological age. Life on Earth was dominated by simple bacteria up until about 650 million years ago when more complex forms of life suddenly took over.

Guy Farrer was one of the volunteers who went to rescue British and French troops from advancing Germans in World War Two.

The fake typhus epidemic staged by Eugene Lazowski and Stasiek Matulewicz during World War II saved thousands of lives.

After being imprisoned for a reading-related prank, the couple never recovered.

Statues don’t need to venerate military leaders of the Civil War to promulgate false narratives

The story of how the myth exploded reveals how fake stories spread today and the secrets behind the psychology of their fiercest proponents.

When 16th-Century Portuguese came to Japan, they brought a special dish with them. Today, in Japan, it’s called tempura and has been a staple of the country’s cuisine ever since.

It goes without saying that nearly everything made with graphic design and video software was once produced using a physical process, from newspapers to TV Logos. But some TV stations and film studios took things even further and designed physical logos that were filmed to create dynamic special effects. Arguably the most famous of which is MGM’s Leo the Lion which first appeared in 1916 and would go on to include 7 different lions over the decades.

Bill Goldstein’s “The World Broke in Two” looks at four British writers — Woolf, Eliot, Forster and Lawrence — at a turning point in history.

It is hard to predict an eclipse when you think the world is flat.

It remains one of the most enduring mysteries in British criminal history with a long list of potential suspects.

At Ole Miss, where even an architect of disenfranchisement still has his name on a building, the process of addressing the past is more sensitive than at most universities.

The annual event was held at a fairground in Palisades Park, New Jersey, from 1946 to 1955. These photos from the golden era of baby racing are amazing, and will transport you to a time before Uncle Bureaucracy stalked our lives with his endless red tape.

The prospective series takes as its premise an ugly truth that black Americans are forced to live every day: What if the Confederacy wasn’t wholly defeated?

Richard Nixon’s telephone calls came regularly during the 1968 campaign. And H.R. Haldeman took meticulous notes, jotting down the instructions he received from the candidate.

"Brewing", "herbs," "broomsticks," "woman." When one hears these words together, most often the assumption is that the person in question is a witch. Yet brewing has a very human meaning as well, one that revolves around the avarice of alcohol and its never-ending demand by consumers.

NPR's Ron Elving reviews a massive new tome on the life of Edwin Stanton, certainly one of the most contentious and controversial figures in Abraham Lincoln's cabinet of rivals.

The Monument is one of London’s most famous landmarks. But this tribute to an epic fire also has a secret second use – as a giant piece of scientific equipment.

After being indoctrinated online into the world of white supremacy and inspired by a racist hate group, Dylann Roof told friends he wanted to start a “race war.” Someone had to take “drastic action” to take back America from “stupid and violent” African Americans, he wrote.

Nearly everyone who has been to a casino has tried a game of craps. It’s easy to play, always exciting, and seemingly simple enough that even new players can pick it up and give it a try after watching a game or two. With as appealing as it can be for new players, you might …

For almost the entire history of our species, we’ve lived as clan-living hunter-foragers. 150,000 years ago, homo sapiens arrived on the Savannah Plain. Dangerous predators. Scarcity of food. Unreliable clothing and shelter. Life was short and perilous. Our brains became hardwired to survive and thrive in this world of constant danger.

For 61 years, no one could breach Joseph Bramah's legendary lock. Then Alfred C. Hobbs showed up.

Newly released documents from long-secret Kennedy assassination files raise startling questions about what top agency officials knew and when they knew it.

Turf cutters in Ireland regularly find chunks of butter deep in the nation's peat bogs. What is the stuff doing there?

The agonies of being overweight — or running a diet company — in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size.

Whether you learned about it from watching “Raiders of the Lost Ark” or, even earlier, from reading Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier’s European bestseller “The Morning of the Magicians,” who doesn’t now know that Hitler and Nazi Germany were obsessed with the occult?

More than a hundred thousand gallons of beer burst onto the streets of London when a vat broke.

Today, no one thinks there has been a stage in humanity when some colours were not yet being perceived. Plato’s list of primary colours includes white, black, red, and the ‘brilliant and shining’, to us, not a colour at all.

How a business-savvy 19th-century photographer from Austria fashioned the West’s image of Japan.