The conservative transparency advocates at Judicial Watch have obtained some new documents from the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's massive, heavily-redacted FBI file. One interesting bit: During a trip to South America in 1961, then-Assistant District Attorney Kennedy had a party at a brothel: "while Kennedy was in Santiago made arrangements to 'rent' a brothel for an entire night. Kennedy allegedly invited one of the Embassy chauffeurs to participate in the night's activities." Kennedy was in South America to meet various "left-wingers," and Communists, according to the memo. (To what end? The memo doesn't say.) Diplomacy was different back in the 60s, one hopes.

Turns out the Nazis were watching 3-D movies years before Americans were. According to the Guardian, Australian filmmaker Philippe Mora recently uncovered two 3-D propaganda films that date to 1936:

Should Mississippi honor Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest by giving him a special license plate? Probably not, no. But the Mississippi Division of Sons of Confederate Veterans seems to think it would be a good idea, having proposed a commemorative Forrest License plate for 2014 as part of a series of license plates that "mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, which it calls the 'War Between the States.'"

Former Governor of Alaska and alternate-universe U.S. President Sarah Palin was on Fox News host Greta Van Susteren's show On the Recorder to talk about the State of the Union. And she packed her bag of zingers!

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of JFK's inauguration, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library is digitizing reams of JFK artifacts. Among them: The president's application to Harvard, including mediocre test scores and a refreshingly banal personal essay.

If history has taught us anything, it's that it repeats itself. These two Australian guys invade various fortresses to see what we've really learned from the Battle of Troy. It turns out to be not very much, but hilarious nonetheless.

On tonight's 60 Minutes, Andy Rooney tackled a story about a Virginia history textbook that was revealed to contain 140 mistakes. Then, Rooney bragged about all the books he's written. Then, he again criticized the aforementioned author. The video, inside.

When Wikipedia launched in 2001, its handful of volunteers faced the daunting task of creating an open-source repository of the world's knowledge from scratch. Where did they start? Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, of course.

Now this is crazy: A Texas state agency is actually doing something worthwhile.

Two Hawaiian teachers have taken a new approach to teaching their students by reworking lyrics to popular songs by artists like Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Gwen Stefani and more into some seriously cool visual history lessons ever. Some favorites, inside.

Now's your chance to own some American history: An auction house in California is selling the casket that held the body of John F. Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, from 1963 until 1981. Bidding starts at $1,000.

New research indicates that Christopher Columbus was the son of a Polish king! "How many explorers does it take to mistake the Bahamas for China?" would be an inappropriate response. Give up some respect. Who's your daddy now, America? (Poland.)

Is that Abraham Lincoln himself? No, but you can get caught up thinking it's him. Here is the speech in visual form; words, images, and patterns fluidly bending into each other. "Epic," Lincoln would say. Lincoln would say that, right?

Hoping to prove that politics have always been dirty, Reason made these slick attack ads against Thomas Jefferson and James Madison based on actual statements made by their political opponents. Mostly, they prove that insults used to be way better.

Zooming in on an 1842 photograph of Cincinnati, bloggers identified two human figures at the edge of the Ohio River, possibly collecting water. It's younger than this 1838 Paris daguerreotype, but still one of the first pictures of living humans.

According to Our Virginia: Past and Present, a textbook currently in use in Virginia public schools, "thousands of Southern blacks fought in the Confederate ranks." According to Civil War scholars, that's not true, at all. Who is right, here?

See It Now was Edward R. Murrow 1950's news magazine show. So old that it predates 60 Minutes. But let this clip transport you back to a time when merely two screens next to each other was cause for commemoration.

If Goldilocks were shopping for a TV today, odds are she'd walk away disappointed and empty-handed. We looked at three major TV manufacturers' latest offerings and couldn't help but wonder — whatever happened to the medium TV?

Author and intellectual Tony Judt died yesterday in New York at 62, after a battle with ALS. His best known book, "Postwar," about Europe after WW2 was called "remarkable" by The New Yorker. Read his final essays, starting here.

Long before FOX News and MSNBC began propagating truthiness, Woodrow Wilson created the Committee on Public Information to keep impressionable American minds from straying too far to the left, or even worse, to Kaiser Bill and the Huns.