While struggling in obscurity during his own lifetime, Vincent van Gogh has gone on to become one of the most famous painters of the 1800s. And while most of that has to do with the quality and style of his work, part of our fascination is in the strange lifestyle he lived. As years passed,...

World War II is often touted as the most important conflict in world history (though our vote goes to “whatever conflict our ancestor was able to survive”). Given such a tall pedestal, you think people would be better at separating its fact from its fiction, but apparently that isn’t...