The handsome Founding Father has always had a robust fandom—even before the ten-dollar bill, or a certain musical.

In the late 1800s, doctors in German-speaking countries were having trouble agreeing on one simple thing: whether to wear gloves during surgery.

The first trial to use forensic toxicology electrified France in 1840 with the tale of a bad marriage and poisoned innards.

In 1803, nearly two dozen orphan boys endured long voyages and physical discomfort to transport the smallpox vaccine to Spain's colonies.

Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov's hypothesis on the evolution of rye is now accepted. But in the 1930s, his research got him arrested.