How 26 Schoolchildren Were Kidnapped And Buried Alive Only To Dig Their Way Out, The Wildest Founding Father You Didn't Learn About, And More From HU

[History Uncovered]( How 26 Schoolchildren Were Kidnapped And Buried Alive Only To Dig Their Way To Freedom, The Wildest Founding Father You Didn't Learn About, And More From History Uncovered [Meet Roy Benavidez, The Vietnam War Hero Who Took 37 Battle Wounds For His Fellow Soldiers]( [After the battle that Roy Benavidez later called "six hours in hell," during which he saved the lives of at least eight soldiers, he was so badly injured that medics thought he was dead and placed him in a body bag.]( [How 26 Schoolchildren Were Kidnapped And Buried Alive — Then Dug Their Way To Freedom]( [The 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping left 26 children and their school bus driver buried alive until their miraculous escape.]( [Divers Discover The Oldest Shipwreck In England — Complete With Its Precious Cargo Intact]( [The so-called "Mortar Wreck" sank some 750 years ago.]( [Why Gouverneur Morris Might Be The Wildest Founding Father You Didn't Learn About In School]( [Though Gouverneur Morris officially lost his leg in a carriage accident, rumors flew that he'd actually injured himself by jumping from a lover's balcony to escape the woman's angry husband.]( [Inside The Horror Of The Soviet Gulags, The Stalinist Prison Camps That Brutalized Millions]( [At its peak from the 1920s to the 1950s, the Soviet gulag system imprisoned millions of people.]( [Researchers Discover A New Van Gogh — That Was Hiding Under Another Painting For 117 Years]( [The self-portrait was on the back of his painting "Head of a Peasant Woman."]( [60 Conspirators, 23 Stab Wounds, 1 Fallen Republic: Inside The Assassination Of Julius Caesar]( [All of Julius Caesar's assassins reportedly met a strange and gruesome fate themselves, some dying in a shipwreck or by the very daggers they used to murder their dictator.]( [Meet Elijah McCoy, The Pioneering Black Inventor Who Inspired The Phrase 'The Real McCoy']( [Though he was trained as an engineer, Elijah McCoy could only find work on the railroads as a laborer simply because he was Black — but then he invented one little device that revolutionized train travel forever and gave birth to the phrase "the real McCoy."]( [This 70-Year-Old Man Was Just Arrested In Nevada For The 1982 Murder Of A 5-Year-Old Girl]( ["This guy is a complete monster. He's every person's nightmare. The world is a safer place with this guy off the streets."]( [This Former Concentration Camp Guard Was Just Found Guilty Of 3,518 Counts Of Accessory To Murder]( [Josef Schütz worked as a Nazi guard from 1942 to 1945.]( [The Enduring Tale Of Sundiata Keita, The Fabled King Who Founded The Mali Empire]( [As the leader of the Mali Empire, Sundiata Keita created the Manden Charter — one of the very first human rights charters that discussed topics like peace, the abolition of slavery, education, and food security.]( [How Jayne Mansfield's Gruesome Death Sparked Rumors About Decapitation And Satanic Curses]( [When Mansfield's car crashed into the back of a semi-truck trailer and slid underneath it, the impact sliced off the top of the car.]( [Unsubscribe]( [Update Subscription]( [History Uncovered On Instagram]( [History Uncovered On Facebook](