LONGFORM

The cartoon-inspired replica was given away in 1997—and was, as the eventual owner put it, “like living in a Crayola box.”

A Mormon teenager traveling through the American Southwest in the mid-19th century was abducted by Native Americans. Her life was never the same.

On January 30, 1925, Kentucky cave explorer Floyd Collins went underground—and didn’t come out. The epic effort to rescue him gripped national headlines and transformed into a battle between heroism and folly, selflessness and selfishness, life and death.

The game of familiar faces has surprising connections to Anne Frank and fidget toys.

Each December, "Baby, It’s Cold Outside"—a ’40s-era American standard that some modern listeners hear as a depiction of sexual misconduct—invites a barrage of controversies, radio bans, and think pieces.

What began as a routine renovation revealed Harvard's history of body snatching.

In 1908, a playboy made a bet he could walk around the world without being identified. Then things got weird.

Lucy walked on her own two feet. Scientists weren’t expecting that.

The groundbreaking artist made history in 1999 with his album ‘Hours’ when he sold it as an internet download before it hit stores: “Mark my words … we are not going back to record companies and through shops.”

The distinctive wear patterns on your Levi's could put you behind bars.

The Pattersons said they were merely going on vacation. That was nearly 70 years ago.

Fazlur Khan and the idea that would turn architecture on its head.