Chief Standing Bear gave the pipe to attorney John Lee Webster after Webster defended him in a 1879 civil rights case.

Two men shot Riaan Naude and stole one of his guns, but police aren't sure of their motive.

Physicist Sally Ride made history on board the Challenger space shuttle in June 1983. Upon her death in July 2012, it was revealed she was also the first gay astronaut in space.

While Thomas Jefferson was the main author of the Declaration of Independence, the congressional committee of John Adams, Ben Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston played an important role.

From the "Giggling Granny" serial killer to the "Numbers Queen" crime boss, see some of the most striking colorized images of female criminals from the past.

Bruce's Beach was originally owned by Willa and Charles Bruce, who made the property into an oasis for Black residents, but local officials used a loophole to wrest the land away from them in 1924.

In 2012, a Kentucky woman named Shayna Hubers shot her boyfriend Ryan Poston six times and claimed that it was in self-defense — though two juries would later convict her of murder.

Charlotte Bischoff van Heemskerck spent years looking for the painting because it held special significance for her, having once hung in her family's dining room right behind her chair.

From the gunslinging postwoman of Montana to the deputy marshal who patrolled the Plains, discover the seldom-taught stories of these icons of the American frontier.

Nearly 3,000 people died on September 11, 2001, while countless survivors were left with lifelong physical and emotional wounds. From the "Falling Man" to the "Dust Lady," these are some of their stories.

Using DNA and following a hunch, researchers have identified the earliest-known victims of the Black Death in a 14th-century graveyard in Kyrgyzstan.