The men and women who tracked down looted art after WWII didn’t just go after stuff stolen by the Nazis. They also searched for treasures stolen by the Japanese. Sort of.

Five months before his assassination in 1978, Harvey Milk called on the president of the United States to defend the rights of gay and lesbian Americans.

While Sweden has claimed a position of neutrality for more than two centuries, its policy of non-alignment was somewhat ambiguous during the Cold War.

Foreigners fighting for Ukraine may call to mind the International Brigades that fought in defense of the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War.

Apartheid policies that segregated sports in South Africa were challenged by its own athletes, as well as internationally.

The public fascination was so intense that fans soon started demanding live reenactments.

The twentieth-century struggle for African independence began in Paris salons hosted by the daughters of elite blacks, then travelled by telegram and steamship.

After WWI, German psychiatrists diagnosed traumatized soldiers as having "hysteria," othering the men to somewhat disastrous effect.

In 1968 violent events at home and aboard were broadcast in color on the television news, creating impacts that may have swayed the presidential election.

To hide in plain sight while on assignment in foreign nations, agents needed precisely tailored clothes made to look local.