What the world gets right and wrong about the connections between Islam and slavery.

These Joseph Stalin facts reveal the man who wrote the history of 20th-century Soviet Union in blood.

As it turns out, the iconic photo was nearly never published in the first place.

Immigration has been a contentious issue for the United States from its earliest days. All along, opposing forces have pulled government policy in different directions to create the system we have today.

How and why many of us still observe one of humanity's oldest rituals.

One of the pictures that photojournalism student Therese Frare captured of David Kirby's final moments in May 1990 was published in LIFE magazine, shedding light on the victims of the poorly understood epidemic.

The photograph of a South Vietnamese general executing a young Viet Cong fighter during the Tet Offensive shocked the world. Details that didn't make the papers paint a different story.

The "Migrant Mother" photo is iconic — but if the subject had her way, she wouldn't be the face of the Great Depression.

How the Cold War-era FBI took down countless U.S. citizens deemed to be enemies of the state and got away with it.

Sometimes a big story gets lost only because its unfortunate timing pits it in a competition for our attention with another, much larger story elsewhere.