Sada Abe, a former geisha, became a sensation in 1930s Japan after erotically asphyxiating her married lover, cutting off his penis and testicles and carrying them in her kimono for days.

Generations of the writer’s family experience the “romantic delusions and hazardous fortunes” of San Francisco.

Four days, two murders, and one poplar tree that almost ignited World War III.

We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves.

On rongorongo, which no one can decipher.

A maverick war correspondent, Hemingway’s third wife was the only woman at D-Day and saw the liberation of Dachau. Her husband wanted her home in his bed.

America’s first viral story was of a Kentucky cave explorer, Floyd Collins, and the epic effort to rescue him.

What happens when your neighborhood, your city, seem to have lost their way?

Seventeen years before the Stonewall Riots, Dale Jennings proclaimed to a California court that he was a homosexual. It was the first glimmer of a civil rights revolution. This is the story of an unsung, and reluctant, hero.

Every law student knows John Brady’s name. But few know the story of the bumbling murder that ended in a landmark legal ruling.

The racially motivated destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood district has never been told in a manner worthy of its importance. Local residents and Hollywood grapple with how to tell its story as the 100-year anniversary approaches.

The original writer of the Village Voice story that inspired “Boys Don’t Cry” looks back on her reporting—and the huge error she still regrets.

“The echoing horror of slavery cuts both ways. We are often afraid to say what we know is true. The South is disaster and it is also miracle.”

An important house in Florida history is for sale, its future uncertain. Some want the historic house preserved, while the racism that fueled the Rosewood riots remains.

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League did everything it could to keep lesbians off the diamond. Seventy-five years later, its gay stars are finally opening up.

Inside the cases for—and against—his removal from office.

“My dad’s whole idea was to do an amusement park differently, not where you just got strapped in and twisted around, but one where you controlled what was going on. You can have an awesome time, but you can also hurt yourself if you don’t use good judgment.”

The story of an 80-year-old hoax.

To understand the rise of Donald Trump is to understand his mentor, Roy Cohn — and the New York City establishment that aided and abetted him.

The lives of elevators.

The myth of “real” America just won’t go away.

The untold story of how Lisa Howard’s intimate diplomacy with Cuba’s revolutionary leader changed the course of the Cold War.

“As a young reporter in Eastern Europe in 2001, I expected to witness the ‘end of history’ and the flowering of democracy. That was just one of the mistakes I made.”

A 42,000-word, 3-continent spanning “hacker tourist” account of the laying of the (then) longest wire on earth.

When New Yorkers lived knee-deep in trash.