Iva Ikuko Toguri d’Aquino, or “Tokyo Rose” as most people knew her was an American-born Japanese woman who famously hosted a Japanese radio program aimed at U.S. troops during World War II that was designed to broadcast propaganda.

People who share dangerous ideas don’t necessarily believe them. By Adrienne LaFrance.

The French called them mouches or “flies,” because of the dark spots’ resemblance to small insects alighted on fashionably pale skin....

In 1692 A. Boogert" sat down to write a book in Dutch about mixing watercolors. Not only would he begin the book with a bit about the use of color in painting, but would go on to explain how to create certain hues and change the tone by adding one, two, or three parts of water.

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to go into space when she flew Vostok 6 in 1963. She spent almost three days in space and orbited Earth 48 times. That was her only trip into space. Tereshkova later toured the world to promote Soviet science and became involved in Soviet politics.

Thanks for nothing, Federal Communications Commission.

n this video chef Giorgio Locatelli recreates Pompeiian bread, using a 2,000-year-old loaf for inspiration

Pop-ups, harlequinades, and Meggendorfers, oh my!

Wonder Woman is an action-packed adventure about a superhero doing her superhero best to stop Ares, the God of War. It's set near the end of World War I, a.k.a. The Great War, a.k.a. a four-year struggle that killed 17 million people and wounded 20 million more. Chris DeRosa is a military historian who teaches at Monmouth University. He is also a fan. I spoke with DeRosa and asked him if he thought the film's treatment of the past was perfect.

How and when our ancestors mastered the use of fire remains a hotly debated question. Researchers are hunting for answers buried in ancient ash and soils.

A U.S. Coast Guard ship that first set out to sea during the Spanish-American War and sank off the coast of Southern California 100 years ago won’t be moved anytime soon, officials said Tuesday.

Roosevelt’s 1942 order for the internment of Japanese-Americans, turns 75 this year. Decades have passed, but survivors still harber dark memories of the time, posessions, and dignity that were robbed from them.

Scientists explore the lives of ancient human sacrifice victims, by analyzing what they ate.

New Snowden documents provide precious few new details about an incident that remains shrouded — and controversial. By Miriam Pensack.

Maps from 1630 to the present show how the city—once an 800-acre peninsula—grew into what it is today.

For almost two centuries, the humble-seeming mail was a hotbed of invention. What happened?

Thomas Morris's book "The Matter of the Heart" is not for the squeamish.

Machine-learning project will analyse 1,000 years of maps and manuscripts from the floating city's golden age.

Newly discovered fossils indicate Homo sapiens were present in Africa 300,000 years ago, scientists reported. Until now, the earliest evidence dated back just 195,000 years.

In Victorian England, Sutherland Macdonald stands out as the country's first professional tattoo artist.

Fifty years after the Six-Day War, the intellectualism that once lit up the Middle East has been all but extinguished by corrupt regimes and perverse…

Everything was bugged, we were followed constantly, and even our dog knew we had a "minder."

Modern-day enthusiasts hope to revive an ancient financial instrument

What Happened to Venezuela? By Greg Grandin.

The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.

Housing segregation scars every metropolitan map in America, and almost every institution of American life is complicit in maintaining this geography of exclusion. But in his new book, "The Color of Law," Richard Rothstein argues that pervasive segregation cannot be chalked up entirely to the private prejudices of realtors and lenders or the personal choices of homebuyers. Rather, he writes, the racial separation of so many American neighborhoods is chiefly the responsibility of the public sector and, above all, the federal government.

In 1979, psychologist Ellen Langer and her students carefully refurbished an old monastery in Peterborough, New Hampshire, to resemble a place that would have existed two decades earlier.

Ever wondered what hides under that final coat of paint on a wall filled with graffiti? How about a wall that was painted over and over for 30 years?

In 1969, Philip Zimbardo, a psychologist from Stanford University, ran an interesting field study. He abandoned two cars in two very different places: one in a mostly poor, crime-ridden section of New York City, and the other in a fairly affluent neighborhood of Palo Alto, Calif. Both cars were left without license plates and parked with their hoods up.

Instead of disappearing, the pesky rodents proliferated.

The story of the scatological film from São Paulo, Brazil that terrorized the world and created the YouTube reaction video.

Ben Hutchinson reviews “Goethe: Life as a Work of Art” by Rüdiger Safranski as translated by David Dollenmayer.

And yes, the Eiffel Tower really used to be painted red.

In WW2, MI9 smuggled escape maps and supplies in care packages to troops in POW camps. Here's how. An excerpt from "It's All a Game: The History of Board Games from Monopoly to Settlers of Catan" by Tristan Donovan