On 18 June 1815, the Battle of Waterloo ended Napoleon's empire. But one of the strangest stories to come out of that day involves Henry Paget, a cavalry charge, a very calm amputation, and a leg with its own tombstone.

The Dead Rabbits were an Irish American street gang who dominated Five Points in 1840s and 1850s New York. Named after a thrown rabbit carcass, they fought the Bowery Boys, backed Tammany Hall, and helped shape the city's criminal underworld.

Discover the story behind the 1936 photo of a Republican militia wedding in Madrid, and the women who fought and loved on the front lines of the Spanish Civil War.