The Dog Detective That Led Investigators to a Missing World Cup Trophy

In the early 19th century, America had no standard of education—every town and city could teach its students in different ways. Until Horace Mann had an idea.

The DSM once labeled homosexuality a mental disorder. In the 1960s, LGBTQ+ activists Barbara Gittings and Frank Kameny pushed to change that, helping spur its removal from the DSM in 1973.

Find out about the ancient roots and modern history of Mother's Day.

Louella Gallagher is not the prototypical mother of the 1950s. Her daughters Connie Ann, age 5, and Colleena Sue, age 2.5, serve as props in a knife-throwing act that would be considered a bit too risky by today's standards.