To this day, Victorian death pictures remain chilling artifacts of a bygone era that's shocking to modern sensibilities.

From wife selling to mummy unwrapping, these Victorian era facts will make you so glad you live in the 21st century.

After the whaleship "Essex" was sunk by a vengeful sperm whale, its crew was left on the high seas for 90 days — causing them to resort to cannibalism.

Martin Luther King Jr. once called Chicago the most racist city in America. Here's the long history that proves him right.

While many Americans are taught that the civil rights movement was localized in the South in the 1950s and '60s, the reality is that the struggle was brutal all over the country.

King Henry VIII lusted after Anne Boleyn for nine years before divorcing his first wife to marry her — then had her executed three years later.

As the civil rights movement brought attention to Black Americans' struggle for equality, whites across the country launched a brutal counter-movement.

When mine owners cut wages in 1870s Pennsylvania, the Molly Maguires fought back. But with a private military on their side, the mine owners ultimately won what would become the first labor war in U.S. history.

Before he became a Civil War general, Congressman Dan E. Sickles' scandalous murder trial changed our legal system forever.

In the 1840s, Dr. James Marion Sims perfected his surgical skills by operating on enslaved black women without anesthesia.

"Better Babies" contests scored children on a 1,000-point scale that was generated based on the racist principles of eugenics.