How the “genial Bavarian” version of Adolf Hitler became a global media celebrity, “a plain-living gentleman with a soft spot for dogs and children.”

A treasure hunter found the world’s richest shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod. Or at least that’s what he told his investors.

The story of “Madam Walker,” who built a thriving empire of hair products for black women.

Visiting the treasures – bear skulls, footprints, an ancient emerald necklace – that surfaced with shipwrecks at Yenikapi in Turkey.

Two summers spent teaching and living in the hills of Tennessee.

The mysterious life of the serial stowaway Marilyn Hartman.

If jobs as we’ve known them for a century are going away, what will replace them?

Kevin Wheatcroft owns the world’s largest collection of Nazi memorabilia. And he’s suddenly eager to show it off.

An oral history with former employees Sasha Frere-Jones, Alysia Abbott, Piotr Orlov, and Chris Wilcha.

Madeleine Fullard is on a mission to locate the remains of apartheid’s murdered activists. She needs the help of Eugene de Kock, a former police squad leader known as “Prime Evil,” to do so.

The story of Ota Benga, captured in the Congo, displayed at the World’s Fair, and brought to the Bronx Zoo in 1906.

Dave Wilsey was among the American soldiers who liberated Dachau. The letters he left behind complicate the story.

The 1826 kidnapping – and murder – that begat America’s obsession with Masons.

Decades after a young nun was murdered, a group of former Catholic high school students begin to suspect that an abusive priest may have been the culprit.

Revisiting the 6200 block of Osage Avenue.

An essay on its history and future during a time when “gayness, we are told, is over.”

Gregg Bemis is an 87-year-old retired venture capitalist who owns the salvage rights to the Lusitania. He’s determined to prove an alternate theory as to why the ship was attacked in 1915. Unfortunately, the Irish government isn’t so into his plan.

The man who killed John Wilkes Booth was a eunuch. By choice.

What led to the 1970 explosion of a Greenwich Village townhouse, in which three members of the Weather Underground were killed, and what happened to the group after.

Excerpted from Days of Rage.

What happend to Serafim Todorov after the 1996 Olympic featherweight semifinals.

The rise of the Peoples Temple through the lens of an earlier group: Father Divine’s Peace Mission.

An innocent man was executed – in 1761. Voltaire got on the case.

The East India Company was once “too big to fail.”

A segregated housing development washed away in a flood can still explain why Portland, Oregon, is such a “white” city.

President Lincoln worked very hard all his life. After he died, his corpse kept a gruelling travel schedule, too.