Many Christians still held that that Jews were responsible for Jesus' death, and Jews were often subjected to violence, both physical and against their property. This was a time period in which the myth of the "blood libel" took hold—the rumor that Jews used the blood of Christian infants...
Second, and less important but still rather spectacular, was the melting of virtually every square inch of the surface of this ice sheet over a short period of a few days during the hottest part of the summer, a phenomenon observed every few hundred years but nevertheless an ominous event co...
The web's role in recruiting people to hateful, extremist organizations is back in the spotlight after The New York Timesprofiled a young neo-Nazi in Ohio. The story portrayed the man's decidedly ordinary life and raised, but didn't answer questions, about how he was radicalized. Our repor...