Murder
A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials
One town's strange journey from paranoia to pardon
How Emmett Till's Mother Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement
A new film dramatizes the life of Mamie Till-Mobley, who forced America to confront the brutality of her son's 1955 murder
Adnan Syed, Subject of 'Serial,' Is Released From Prison
The decision comes 23 years after he was convicted for the murder of 18-year-old Hae Min Lee
The Many Myths of Catherine de' Medici
A new Starz series, "The Serpent Queen," dramatizes the life of the much-maligned 16th-century ruler
Bones Found in Medieval Well Likely Belong to Victims of Anti-Semitic Massacre
A new DNA analysis suggests the 17 individuals were Ashkenazi Jews murdered in Norwich, England, in 1190
The 20th-Century History of Anti-Semitic Attacks on Jewish Politicians
Russian rhetoric against Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy echoes the language directed toward Jewish leaders in post-WWI Europe
This Lavish Silver Box Tarnished Mary, Queen of Scots—and Contributed to Her Downfall
The controversial container played a role in the deposed monarch’s fall from favor
The Holocaust-Era Comic That Brought Americans Into the Nazi Gas Chambers
In early 1945, a six-panel comic in a U.S. pamphlet offered a visceral depiction of the Third Reich's killing machine
How a Failed Assassination Attempt Pushed George Wallace to Reconsider His Segregationist Views
Fifty years ago, a fame-seeker shot the polarizing politician five times, paralyzing him from the waist down
Skulls Thought to Belong to Modern Murder Victims Actually Date to the Pre-Hispanic Period
Found in a cave in Mexico in 2012, the 10th- through 13th-century bones may have been displayed in a ritual tower of craniums
Denver Apologizes for Anti-Chinese Riot of 1880
A white mob terrorized residents and murdered a man, but the city never punished the perpetrators
Twice Accused of Murder, This Writer Later Foresaw the Sinking of the Titanic
Under the pseudonym Mayn Clew Garnett, author Thornton Jenkins Hains published a maritime disaster story with eerie parallels to the real-life tragedy
Forensic Scientists Are Testing Whether Honey Bees Can Help Locate Human Bodies
Researchers think they can find evidence of volatile organic compounds from a decomposing body in honey
A Tantalizing Clue Emerges in the Unsolved Gardner Museum Art Heist
Boston police officers tell local media that the 1991 murder of Jimmy Marks might be linked to modern history's biggest art heist
Is China Committing Genocide Against the Uyghurs?
The Muslim minority group faces mass detention and sterilization—human rights abuses that sparked the U.S.' diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics
This Man Was the Only Eyewitness to the Deaths of Both Lincoln and Garfield
Almon F. Rockwell's newly resurfaced journals, excerpted exclusively here, offer an incisive account of the assassinated presidents' final moments
Hong Kong Removes 'Pillar of Shame' Honoring Tiananmen Square Victims
The move arrives amid continuing crackdowns on pro-democracy protesters in the Asian city
This Locket Memorializes a Black Activist Couple Murdered in a Christmas 1951 Bombing
Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore attracted the KKK's ire for their tireless promotion of civil rights in the Jim Crow South
Did the Vikings Actually Torture Victims With the Brutal 'Blood Eagle'?
New research reveals the feasibility of the infamous execution method
New Memorials in Berlin Honor the Holocaust's Overlooked Black Victims
Two brass "stumbling stones" are among the first to memorialize the Afro-German people murdered by the Nazis
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