Natasha Frost

Railway tracks buckled, people slept in parks, hundreds died, while others tried to die as the heat and humidity became unbearable.

For decades, they denied their German roots, claiming to be of Scandinavian origin.

Stripped of their most basic human rights, patients nonetheless built lives and communities.

She started as a clerk-typist, but when she got to the OSS Emergency Sea Rescue Equipment Section, she began to do more significant work.

Payne, deciding she was ‘never going to be under the thumb of a man,’ took to a life of crime, traveled the world and mastered the jewel heist.

One of the largest ships in the U.S. Navy disappeared without a trace. More than 100 years later, its fate remains unknown.

The Soviet masses did not respond well to 'prozodezhda,' a 1920s experiment that sought to revolutionize dress.

Joseph Stalin led a uniquely brutal campaign against religion and religious leaders.

A 2013 letter to the FBI, if real, suggests the Anglin brothers and Frank Morris survived one of the most daring—and dangerous—prison breaks of all time.

A recently released book details an overheard conversation with Nazi officials as new evidence for an old theory.

Early humans may have been primitive—but they had some sophisticated habits and tastes.

How many were killed, how many children were sent to the site and the numbers of people who attempted to escape are among the facts that reveal the scale of crimes committed at Auschwitz.

The hulking skeletons are believed to have been the descendants of Vikings who colonized northern France and, later, southern Italy and Sicily.

Religion was a topic America's first president remained extremely cagey about.

Louisa Adams did not step foot on American soil before her 26th birthday—the same age as the second foreign-born first lady, Melania Trump, when she came to the United States nearly 200 years later.

On July 4, 1826, two prominent presidents, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, took their final breaths within hours of each other. Some have wondered if it was somehow planned.

New analysis of an ancient site gives man’s oldest friendship an even earlier start date.

Skeletal analysis of troops at the Battle of the Little Bighorn suggests a very different outcome.

Captain George Kendall is believed to be the first among the colonists to be executed, but which crime was he killed for?

From carving menorahs on stolen blocks of wood to creating makeshift wicks from scraps of fat and used loose threads, concentration camp inmates devised covert ways to celebrate the holiday.

A.J. Luna worked in security and convoy communications. The threat of being hit by a bomb or a sniper was constant.

Karl Koecher and his wife lived a swinging, gold-plated life in New York City—all the while funneling classified information to the Soviets.

In 1983, two men stabbed and dragged a Black man to death for dating a white woman. One of the murderers has finally been convicted.

Without the death-defying thrill of jumping, life was boring, he said. But that wasn't the only reason he kept at it.

One company wanted to hawk tourist rides in it—along the infamous 405 freeway chase route.

In the 1990s, hysteria over Ty Inc's $5 plush toys fed a wave of theft, fraud and market manipulation. Values soared—then plummeted.

Carter's executive order left many people furious, while others saw it as a bold show of compassion.

An analysis of Adolf Hitler's teeth and bones puts to rest questions of how he died.

Tomoyuki Yamashita and the Führer had their own separate agendas. Later, they would share a mutual interest in gold.

Theories range from high-tech Soviet death rays to extraterrestrials studying human combat to combat-stress-induced hallucinations.

One prize in the Allies' race to take Berlin: the German scientists working to develop the atomic bomb.

Adrian Cronauer saw his role on the radio in Vietnam as a way to keep members of the military entertained as they served their country.

All eight crew members were eerily in position at their stations when the sub was discovered on the ocean floor. Why hadn't they run?

The experiment of a 'continuous week' was shift work, on a colossal scale. And it failed.