Sarah Pruitt

Crippled by polio, FDR took great pains to manage public perception of his disability. But the Secret Service likely never saw the tourist in the crowd with a film camera.

The sale brings up the controversial issue of whether putting such artifacts on sale wrongfully encourages the trade of racist symbols and objects.

Time to update our image of the dinosaur with a giant tongue protruding from its terrifying jaws. That tongue was stuck to its mouth.

The swamp sparrow’s impressively preserved repertoire suggests that birds, like humans, have the ability to sustain culture through the centuries.

The men were buried at right angles to each other, forming a T-shape, with their hacked-off limbs laid by their shoulders.

Young led the Mormons on their great trek westward through the wilderness some 1,300 miles to the Rocky Mountains—a rite of passage they saw as necessary in order to find their promised land.

Under U.S. law, some essential rights of the 14th amendment belong not only to American citizens, but also corporations—thanks to a few key Supreme Court cases and a controversial legal concept known as corporate personhood.

The captured crew were beaten and nearly starved in the 1968 incident that almost led to another war—and the ship remains in North Korea.