HISTORY

Political campaigns used to hold late-night parades, when this helmet with a wick would have come in handy.

Archaeologists had to re-think much of what they knew about Monroe's life when they uncovered a large stone house on his estate's grounds.

She was the most famous woman in Romania during the 1980s, but no one had ever seen her face.

He established the Applegate Trail, a less dangerous route for settlers to take from the Midwest into Oregon.

Anchorage is a city on the edge of civilization—and that’s exactly what locals and visitors love about it.

What is considered romantic today would have been scandalous, if not criminal, less than 100 years ago.

5. The dome was the largest ever constructed in the ancient world.

The human body is full of weird, gross and awe-inspiring stuff as we know it—but for people who lived when ideas were unbound by strict anatomical correctness, it was even more so. Here are 10 things people thought, and in some cases still think, were inh

And when did women and babies start surviving it?

The New York City nightclub is the stuff hedonistic legends are made of.

Erik Jan Hanussen hosted extravagant Nazi parties, loaned them money, and consulted with Hitler. Then they found out he was Jewish.

2. The Bard may have had something to do with O-Town's moniker.