The photo of "Napalm Girl'' depicting nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phúc running from a South Vietnamese airstrike shocked the world in 1972. But there's a lot more to her story.

Black Liberation activist Assata Shakur was found guilty of killing a police officer in 1977, only to escape prison two years later and become a political refugee in Cuba.

In July 1947, something crashed on the Foster Ranch in New Mexico. What that object was, what the government said it was, and what the public thought it could be has created a near-mythical confusion that has lasted ever since.

A notorious SS officer and physician, Josef Mengele sent over 400,000 people to their deaths at Auschwitz during World War II — and never faced justice.

After 30 years of solemnly pledging "never again," the world stood by and watched in horror as another genocide unfolded — this time in Cambodia under Pol Pot.

Was Jesus white, Black, or another race entirely? Go inside the complicated history of what color Jesus of Nazareth may have been.

King Aethelred II of England was crowned when he was just 10 years old, and his reign was marked by a series of blunders so bad that he was usurped by the King of Denmark in 1013.

From his exploits during the Lincoln County War to his death at the hands of Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid's tale of Old West bloodshed is the stuff of legend.

Created with psychology and science in mind, the Stanford Prison Experiment turned regular people into monsters.

Identity politics can lead to some truly violent outcomes. Case in point: the Aryan Brotherhood.

While the men wore lead aprons to protect themselves from the radiation, the women were given nothing. The Radium Girls were even told to lick their brushes to get a fine point for detail work.