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Ruling Paves Way for Transfer of Art Trove Including Nazi-Looted Works

The German owner of the 1,500 artworks was of sound mind when he bequeathed them to a museum in Switzerland, a court in Munich ruled.

A ‘Stonehenge,’ and a Mystery, in the Amazon

The conventional belief is that only small tribes could have inhabited the Amazon jungle, but new discoveries call that into question.

Crimean treasures should return to Ukraine says Dutch court

On loan when Russian forces took control of Crimea in 2014, the collection was assembled from four museums and represented fragments of the ancient empires that used the region as a trade crossroads.

Arkansas School Board Member’s Blackface Photo Leads to Calls for Resignation

Ted Bonner, an Arkansas school board member, was called on to resign after dressing up in blackface at a Halloween party.

How the media normalized Hitler and Mussolini

by John Broich

They treated Hitler as a joke and praised Mussolini for restoring the economy.

Historians Question Medieval C-Section 'Breakthrough' Trumpeted by the New York Times

by Kristina Killgrove

The Times claimed a new study reflects the consensus view of medical historians. This is far from the case.

Obama Declassifies Top Secret Intelligence Files on Repression in Argentina

New documents shed light on OPERATION CONDOR, including planned missions in Europe and assassinations of leaders in Amnesty International.

Scholars are now focusing on the forgotten slaves: Native Americans

"Recent research has shown us that most enslaved persons in the Americas before 1700 were Indians; that Indians constituted a sizable proportion of the global slave population thereafter; and that Europeans enslaved Indians from Quebec to New Orleans, and from New England to the Carolinas."

Secret documents reveal that US led effort to secure the post-Soviet nuclear weapons worked

Newly declassified documents show that the risk of nuclear proliferation at the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 was even greater than publicly known at the time, with 3,429 Soviet strategic warheads scattered outside of Russia in various former Soviet republics.

The electoral college is a medieval relic. Only the U.S. still has one.

For several centuries, many political communities in Europe and the Americas used electors chosen from different territorial and political units to select a main magistrate. The United States is the only country in the world to still use the system to elect a president.

Columnist discovers that Holocaust deniers have tricked Google algorithm

by Carole Cadwalladr

When you search for whether the Holocaust happened Google answers: no.

An underappreciated fact about the 2016 election: The massive generation gap

Hillary Clinton may have lacked Obama’s personal appeal among younger voters, but she still carried the under-30 vote by an 18-point margin over Trump.

Recurrent flooding may mean the end of a historic black town: Princeville, N.C.

The first town chartered by African Americans has battled two 100-year storms in under 20 years. Some see the ruins of homes, many covered in mold, as a lost cause. Others vow to rebuild.

High on Hitler and Meth: Book Says Nazis Were Fueled by Drugs

Norman Ohler, the author of “Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany,” unearthed this startling fact about the Third Reich rummaging through military archives.

Guam war reparations bill moves to White House

“The United States forever will be grateful to the residents of Guam for their steadfast loyalty to the United States, as demonstrated by the countless acts of courage they performed despite the threat of Imperial Japanese military forces that occupied Guam during World War II."

South Atlantic Mystery Flash in September 1979 Raised Questions about Nuclear Test

The White House didn't think so, but a secret CIA report  –  published for the first time  –  believed it might have been. 

California Owes Reparations To Victims Of Forced Race & Intellectual-Based Sterilization, Study Finds

Scores of women, men and children in California suffered under a government mandated program in the early 1900s.

All the times in U.S. history that members of the electoral college voted their own way

There have been a total of 157 faithless voters to date.

The Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Could Make an Early Debut

U.S. government officials say Treasury Secretary Jack Lew could release early images of redesigned $5, $10 and $20 bills in an effort to pressure the Trump Administration away from reversing their plans.

Report: Economists have documented for the first time the decline of the American Dream

Using a big data set of millions of tax returns they show how the chance that you’ll make more money than your parents has dramatically declined since 1940.