During World War II, approximately 600,000 Japanese soldiers were held as prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. Of those, 60,000 died in the horrible conditions. The AP ... Read More

From Lenin to yellow journalism, this new collection of historical anecdotes sports history in a fun light. Though you have to dig a little to sort out the ones ... Read More

While on a beach near Oxeloesund, Sweden, Swiss tourist Thorsten Schwarz found a bottle with a yellowed piece of paper inside. He broke the bottle and found a 60-year ... Read More

Three decades after the Watergate scandal, Jeb Magruder, the former deputy campaign director to Nixon, is now saying he overheard a damning conversation two and half months before the Watergate ... Read More

Just two months after turning 100, comedian Bob Hope passed away on Sunday, July 27 from pneumonia. Bob Hope spent most of the last 100 years making people laugh. ... Read More

At 3:42 a.m. on July 28, 1976, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit the sleeping city of Tangshan, in northeastern China. The very large earthquake, striking an area where it was ... Read More

Fifty years ago today, the Korean War ended when an armistice was signed. The armistice was a written document where each side agreed to the end of hostilities plus ... Read More

The Library of Congress has digitized editions of The Stars and Stripes from World War I. The Stars and Stripes was a newspaper published by the U.S. Army ... Read More

Idi Amin is notorious for being the bloody dictator of Uganda from 1971 to 1979, responsible for the torture and murder of approximately 300,000 Ugandans. Since being ousted in ... Read More

Twenty-five years ago (July 25, 1978), Louise Joy Brown, the world's first successful "test-tube" baby was born in Great Britain. Though the technology that made her conception possible was heralded ... Read More

During her lifetime, Mother Teresa was an inspiration to millions as she cared for the destitute of India. She was often called a living saint. However, since her ... Read More

Security guards at the former Nazi concentration camp Stutthof noticed a man trying to leave with a crematorium door. The police were called and they stopped the man who ... Read More

Somebody did - and they were willing to pay $5,000 for them. Over 200 personal items from John and Jackie Kennedy recently went up for auction. The collection ... Read More

On July 20, 1969, U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. detached the lunar landing craft, the Eagle, from the Apollo 11 and traveled the remaining distance to ... Read More

Fifty years later people still ask the question about Alger Hiss: Was he or wasn't he a Communist spy? Take a closer look at this controversy by reading this article.

How well do you know the U.S. presidents? The people who created the wonderful POTUS (presidents of the United States) resource have created a page of fascinating trivia about ... Read More

The man who fought for civil rights, was convicted of treason, spent 27 years in prison - most of which was in isolation - and then after being released became ... Read More

A dream became a reality on July 17, 1955 when Walt Disney opened Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. Children and adults alike were able to enter the magical land and ... Read More

Eighty-five years ago, on the night of July 16-17, 1918, the Russian tsar and his family were told to get down to the cellar in order to have their picture ... Read More

On January 29, 1944, a British Lancaster was shot down during a night bombing mission over Berlin in World War II. However, the body of only one missing crewmaen ... Read More

Early on Friday morning, July 9, 1982, Queen Elizabeth II woke to find a strange man sitting at the end of her bed. Her calls for help were left unanswered. ... Read More

Since its inception in 1974, students across the U.S. have worked diligently on history projects in order to compete in National History Day. Students and teachers take note, this ... Read More

Mistakenly catalogued as just another book in his collection, one of U.S. President Harry Truman's diaries was recently found in the stacks of the Truman Library. Since the first ... Read More

"It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is ... Read More

A new collection of photos of Adolf Hitler. The collection includes photographs of Hitler greeting foreign dignitaries, standing with other Nazi officials, wielding an axe, attending Nazi Party rallies, ... Read More

An extensive interview with William H. Bauer, a communications officer, about his experiences during World War II. Beginning with his memories of the Great Depression, the interview covers Bauer's ... Read More

Pol Pot, the leader of the Communist Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, married Khieu Ponnary in 1956. Though she was already showing signs of dementia by the mid 1970s, she ... Read More

In 1952, Johann Leprich immigrated to the United States. However, on his application for U.S. citizenship, he neglected to mention he had been an SS guard at the Mauthausen ... Read More

"Ideas are more dangerous than guns. We wouldn't let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?" --Joseph Stalin