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A Street-Level Search for Women to Put on a Manhattan Pedestal

Lois Evans, a playwright and performance artist known as LuLu LoLo, has taken the role of Joan of Arc to advance a push to honor Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton with a Central Park statue.

A third-term Democrat? Hillary Clinton battles history

Hillary Clinton likes to tell voters what she’s not doing: running for President Obama’s third term. That’s to downplay what she is doing: asking voters to pick a Democrat to occupy the Oval Office for 12 consecutive years.

Criminal justice professor says Hitler may not have killed himself

We aren't backing this story -- just letting you know what this professor is saying. He's been getting attention. 

Paris attacks: A history of terror attacks in modern France

Terrorist attacks in France are not a 21st century phenomenon, with the country seeing royal assassination attempts and anarchist bombings among the bloody history of the last 200 years.

Fact Check: Did Ike deport over a million Mexican immigrants?

by Rick Shenkman

Donald Trump made the claim in the GOP debate.  He's wrong. 

Anne Frank’s Diary Gains ‘Co-Author’ in Copyright Move

Her father brought her diary to the world. Now, with the copyright expiring in Europe, a Swiss foundation is arguing that his role was larger.

The dark, complex history of Trump's model for his mass deportation plan

"One day, my father didn't come home. My brother and I were left without a father. We never saw him again."

Proof the Bush White House ignored CIA warnings before 9-11 that we’d be hit and hit hard

CIA officials told Condi Rice face to face we needed to go to war

This is what a West Virginia TV station found when it asked Muslims how they’re treated

They said that West Virginians projected ideas on them based on stereotypes about an entire group.

College Alumni Raise Doubts About Bernie Sanders Campaign Photo

Image of the candidate's civil rights activism under spotlight

The New Monument Men Outsmart ISIS

Founded in 2012 by Roger Michel, the Institute for Digital Archaeology is a joint effort between Harvard University and Oxford University to create an open-source database of high-resolution images and three-dimensional graphics of things like paper and papyrus documents, epigraphs and small artifacts.

The battle to save a Princeton battlefield from bulldozers

The Institute for Advanced Studies wants to build faculty housing on the site. A court has stopped them (for now).

Student group opposes Harvard Law seal, citing slavery ties

The seal, depicting three bundles of wheat, is meant to pay tribute to Royall, a wealthy merchant who donated his estate to create the first law professorship at Harvard University. But Royall made much of his wealth through the slave trade.

The man whose words brought down the Berlin Wall was far from a bumbling fool

The lead role in the drama went to Günter Schabowski, a high-ranking East German apparatchik who recently died at the age of 86 – and whose answers at the briefing have become the stuff of legend.

Gaudi Cathedral Nearing Completion After 133 Years

According to the present chief architect, Jordi Faulí, the building is currently 70 percent finished and on schedule to be completed in 2026, the 100-year anniversary of Gaudí’s death.

White Scholar Insists Churches Should Talk About Reparations For Descendants Of Slaves

"All over the Hebrew Bible, this is what it says to do when you steal — you give it back sevenfold," says Drake University ethicist Jennifer Harvey.

Korean War Memorial Group Finds More Aid in Korea Than in U.S.

The foundation does not have the money it needs to maintain the memorial on the National Mall, and what it does have came from South Korean corporations.

Thermal Scans Of Egypt's Great Pyramid Reveal 'Impressive' Anomaly

Thermal scans of the Great Pyramid of Giza have revealed an "impressive" anomaly in the rock -- a change in temperature that could indicate something behind the 4,500-year-old walls.

Cuban Peers Dispute Ted Cruz’s Father’s Story of Fighting for Castro

The family narrative that has provided such inspirational fire and biographical heft to Mr. Cruz’s campaign is, his father’s former comrades and friends say, an embroidered one.

Pirate Ship Found in the Black Sea

At least ten ships, described as ancient, medieval and from the nineteenth century, were recently discovered at the bottom of the Black Sea.