Stalin didn’t have Photoshop—but that didn’t keep him from wiping the traces of his enemies from the history books. Even the famous photo of Soviet soldiers raising their flag after the Battle of Berlin was altered.
The ‘Gym Crow’ controversy became a flashpoint at an already volatile university.
The Treblinka uprising put a stop to the Holocaust’s second deadliest camp.
In April 2018, it was announced that the island nation long ruled by dictator Fidel Castro and his family would get a new leader: Miguel Díaz-Canel.
It was forged against all odds—but couldn’t survive the heat of public disapproval.
Bluetooth technology is named after a Viking leader thought to be linked to the find.
After President Lincoln's death, the First Lady's public grieving was seen as evidence that she was an improper woman.
The Ringelblum Archive was saved just one day before the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
