Most people know the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment. In 1971, a group of student volunteers agreed to act as guards or prisoners for two weeks. The ensuing cruelty of the guards was so ...

In 1623, word reached the settlers of Plymouth Colony that the Wampanoag leader Massasoit had fallen ill. The colonists had struck a peace deal with Massasoit in 1621, and so Pilgrim leader Edward ...

In July 1989, Patricia Stallings took her three-month-old son, Ryan, to the emergency room after he began vomiting and struggling to breathe. There, doctors found high levels of ethylene glycol, a ...

Stefan Fritzl was born into a nightmare. His world had no sunlight and no blue sky. In fact, his world was composed of a tiny basement dungeon where his sadistic grandfather, Josef Fritzl, had ...

In the 19th century, the Orphan Train Movement started out as a humanitarian endeavor to pluck children out of the slums of East Coast cities and send them to good homes in the Midwest. There, they ...

Archaeologists have officially uncovered the oldest firearm ever found in the continental United States, a 500-year-old bronze cannon. The wall gun is linked to the 16th-century expedition of Spanish ...

During the Manson murders, Charles Manson's followers gruesomely killed actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles on August 9 and 10, 1969. The Manson murders of 1969 brought a nation ...

The 3,900-Year-Old Tomb Of An Egyptian Priestess Was Just Found Hidden Behind A Stone Wall 45 Feet Underground ...

On Dec. 11, 1945, 32-year-old Frances Brown was discovered savagely murdered in her apartment at the Pine Grove Hotel on Chicago’s North Side, a bread knife lodged in her neck. Scrawled on her living ...

Genevieve Carlton earned a Ph.D in history from Northwestern University with a focus on early modern Europe and the history of science and medicine before becoming a history professor at the ...