Famous teacher Annie Sullivan said that Laura Bridgman was "intellectually superior" to Helen Keller. So why do the history books forget her?

We rightly associate concentration camps with death, but Stanislawa Leszczyńska brought life into Auschwitz during the Holocaust.

Life was awful before the days of modern medicine. If you suffered from catalepsy, for example, you ran the risk of being buried alive.

Becklard's Physiology was surprisingly sex positive given the time in which it was written. To believe it, you have to read it.

Possibly the first female police detective in the US, Alice Clement was a total bad ass who you'd love to have on your side.

Elizabeth Woodville, known as the White Queen, pissed off the royal family so much they wanted to kill her. Which naturally makes her one of the most interesting figures in royal history.

Only a fraction of people speak with the received pronunciation accent, and yet it is considered to be the authoritative British accent. What gives?

To a certain extent, the subtleties of seeing our surroundings in living color vary among all of us. Weird, huh?

Journalism is seeing some dark days-which means that a look back on Barbara Walters' career is even more nostalgic.

And you thought the "comments" section of any article was bad.

Many diseases have been around as long as humans, but Leprosy’s social history is the most inextricably linked with human evolution.