The decision to not vaccinate was disastrous and may have affected Ben Franklin's relationship with his wife.
Research conflicts on whether individuals who didn't fit neatly into the gender binary were accepted or spurned in what the study called the “masculine and warlike society” of medieval Finland.
The disease was smallpox, and a "howling mob" attacked police.
In a New Jersey art studio, sculptors bring to life Washington’s World War I memorial.
In 1915, the U.S. military invaded Haiti. Over the next 19 years, it executed dissidents and instigated a system of forced labor.
His name was William Sulzer, and he was impeached after taking on New York's corrupt Tammany Hall political machine.
The reburial sparked an angry protest from some members of the Tulsa Mass Graves Public Oversight Committee, which is overseeing the investigation into whether bodies from the 1921 rampage were dumped into a pit at the city-owned Oaklawn Cemetery.
In August 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken and transformed by a paralyzing disease.
Santos Rodriguez was killed nearly 50 years ago by officer Darrell Cain during an interrogation over $8 stolen from a vending machine.
Rodney James Alcala, who died at 77, was convicted of the murders of six women and a teenage girl, with some of the crimes committed before his TV appearance in 1978.
