Who won the Academy Awards this year? Check out the winners of this year's award ceremony, plus take a trip to the past by visiting this year-by-year history of the ... Read More

It's really quite amazing how many fantastic history books Daniel J. Boorstin has written. Perhaps his most famous was his comprehensive book trilogy, The Americas, for which Boorstin was ... Read More

After the Nazis attacked the Soviet Union, they pushed east. Only days after they reached Kiev, several bombs exploded near the German headquarters in downtown Kiev. In retaliation ... Read More

A collection of quotes by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. about justice, equality, life, law, freedom, peace, discrimination, and love.

Did you know that in 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Russia renamed its capital city St. Petersburg to Petrograd because they thought the name sounded too German? ... Read More

A survivor of several Nazi concentration camps, Simon Wiesenthal dedicated his life after the war to searching for Nazi perpetrators who escaped justice. To honor the 95-year old Simon ... Read More

Typhoid Mary had no idea that she was infected with the disease, yet her work as a cook infected many. Find out all about Typhoid Mary and why authorities had ... Read More

February is Black History Month! Learn more about Martin Luther King, Jr., Buffalo Soldiers, black inventors, Josephine Baker, and much more. Be sure to also check out ... Read More

It has been over 50 years since the discovery that one of the greatest archaeology finds of the 20th century was really one of the 20th century's greatest hoaxes. ... Read More

For 2,000 years, China had been ruled by royalty and since 1644, China had been ruled by the Ch'ing dynasty. But the world was changing in the 20th century ... Read More

Historian Alan Bullock first published his biography of Adolf Hitler, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, in 1952 and followed it decades later with his book, Hitler and Stalin: A Study ... Read More

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, mostly commonly known just as Bonnie and Clyde, were a young couple who went on a two-year crime rampage that included bank robberies, car theft, ... Read More

Josef Mengele was infamous for conducting experiments on twins at Auschwitz. At the end of World War II, Mengele escaped capture and fled to South America. Never caught ... Read More

Check out my large compilation of Vietnam War photos, including combat action, life in the jungle, wounded, P.O.W.s, entertainers, tanks, helicopters, and ships.

Nelson Mandela is an amazing man who spent 27 years in isolation as a prisoner and then when released became the president of South Africa. Learn more about this ... Read More

For decades, all that remained at the location of the Nazi's Belzec death camp were weeds and a small sculpture. Now a new memorial is being built. Visitors ... Read More