In The First Conspiracy, thriller writer Brad Meltzer uncovers a real-life story too good to turn into fiction

By countering the racist fixations that have plagued stories of Indian culture, they hope to reverse the “invisibility” that many feel.

The violence of the U.S. Civil War transformed Jesse James from Missouri farm boy to vicious killer.

Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, a descendant of slaves, called praise for the Confederate general “hurtful” and “divisive.”

Yet whenever I post an image of a woman with a full bush, tempers flare. How did we get here? By Kate Lister.

Tracing the origins of the animal rights movement to one truly bizarre 1922 court case.

When Freddie Mercury made his final on-camera appearance in the music video for “These Are the Days of Our Lives” in 1991, AIDS had left him gaunt and frail. The Queen frontman could barely walk because of open wounds on his foot, part of which would later be amputated. But as Austrian filmmaker Rudi Dolezal, who shot the video, recalls, he still insisted on doing his job.

A researcher claims that identity theft was at play in the case of Jeanne Calment, the world’s oldest person, but experts say that evidence is weak.

Saplings from clones of the world's largest and longest-lived trees, felled for timber more than a century ago, could be key to fighting climate change.

But few have survived and here we take a look at how some of those survivors (plus a few that didn't make it) got started. Sometimes things are a lot more convoluted than you think though, with some companies claiming two (or even three) first cars… In chronological order, let's take a look at the first car made by every major carmaker:

Location of statues was based on nearby fresh water and other resources, says US study

What it’s like to be too big in America

We rarely portray Neanderthals, our close relatives, as telegenic. Museum exhibits give them wild tangles of hair, and Hollywood reduces them to grunting unsophisticates. Their skulls suggest broad faces, tiny chins and jutting brows.

In The Water Margin, first put to paper in the 14th century, local injustice is the rule, and defence against cruel local authority is a matter of vengeance, stratagem, and violence

A new memoir by the legendary kung fu star reveals what it took to become one of Hong Kong’s greatest sons.

A team at the University of Oslo said humans were the real culprits behind a plague outbreak in Glasgow 120 years ago.

The world is a putty place, starting with the most famous gob of them all.

The skilled climber and thief Vjeran Tomic, whom the French press referred to as Spider-Man, has described robbery as an act of imagination.

Carol Folt said she planned to resign after approving the removal of the Confederate monument.

It’s one of the world’s most successful economies — just don’t tell the right-wing government.

THESE are the remarkable photographs of the Victorian street sellers in Greenwich, London - who peddled everything from shrimp to the old clothes of smallpox victims. Taken between 1884 and 1887, the photographs reveal the working adults and children who took to the streets of London to sell their goods to middle class Victorians.

In 1933, Adolf Hitler handed the power of Jewish cultural life in Nazi Germany to his chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels. Goebbels established a team of of regulators that would oversee the works of Jewish artists in film, theater, music, fine arts, literature, broadcasting, and the press. Goebbels new regulations essentially eliminated Jewish people from participating in mainstream German cultural activities by requiring them to have a license to do so.

In 1917 Yamei Kin, a Chinese-born doctor then living in New York, visited her homeland to study a crop that was virtually unknown to Americans: the soybean. By that point she had become something of a celebrity dietitian. For years before the mission to China she had been telling women’s clubs that tofu and other soy products were nutritious alternatives to meat, and that they required fewer resources to produce. She liked to say that they tasted “a little like brains and a little like sweetbreads.”

The Internet stopped another copyright extension without firing a shot.

Half a century later, 1968 continues to resonate as a landmark year for rock, pop and soul — in part, say musicians who were there in the studio, because artists were trying things no one had before.

Thirty years ago, Jacques-André Istel decided to move to the desert and think of something to do. Since then, he has constructed a museum intended to last until the year 6000.

A simple contest of sci-fi strategy, ‘Spacewar!’ ushered in what is now a 140 billion dollar industry.

Historical papers removed from public view by Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

People have always known of dinosaurs, though they have called them by many names. Old legends that place Western dragons in caves…

A collection of high quality remastered prints from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris, France from 1896-1900. Slowed down footage to a natural rate and added in sound for ambiance.

No, castoreum is not a cheap substitute for strawberries; it’s luxe, artisanal secretions from a beaver's rear end.

Most of us know about “Tricky Dick,” but can you identify “The Grand Wrestler” or “Big Steve”?

What started 20 years ago in Nanaimo, B.C. spawned hit songs, worldwide LOLs and a giant hairball of drama.