After World War II, thousands of Nazi war criminals escaped justice with the help of ratlines — which were set up by the Vatican, South American politicians, and sometimes even U.S. spies.

The murder of Sammy Younge Jr. by a white gas station attendant in Tuskegee ignited the college civil rights movement.

When the USS Gregory sank in 1942, a mess hall officer named Charles Jackson French dragged a raft full of his wounded crewmates to safety through shark-infested waters.

Though the shell was destroyed, historians suspect that it was fired by Confederate forces on July 2, 1863.

The new versions of Dahl's books will remove words like "fat" and "ugly" to make them more acceptable to "modern" readers.

Solomon Perel presented himself as Josef Perjell and even joined the Hitler Youth in order to avoid death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II.

Paul Jacobs, a Hazel Park Junior High School teacher, has been charged with "making an intentional threat to commit acts of violence against a school, school employees or students."

Born in upstate New York, Solomon Northup was abducted as an adult and sold into slavery in Louisiana — and then he wrote 12 Years a Slave about his experience.

In 1975, 17-year-old Laurel Jean Mitchell was "forcibly, deliberately drowned" — and this week, Fred Bandy Jr. and John Lehman were arrested and charged.

Immortalized in the 1989 movie Glory, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment was one of the most storied African American units that fought for the Union.

The golden, heart-shaped pendant bears the initials of both the king and his first wife, Katherine of Aragon.