Photographs of D-Day
Sunday May 30, 2004
Sunday, June 6 is the 60th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy on D-Day. Browse through this selection of photographs of D-Day to learn more about this major ... Read More
D-Day Quiz
Sunday May 30, 2004
How much do you know about D-Day? Test yourself with this new quiz.
Jay Leno's First "Tonight Show"
Tuesday May 25, 2004
Johnny Carson had been a staple of late-night television for decades when he announced his retirement. Most people didn't believe it was possible for anyone to fill his shoes. ... Read More
D-Day Veteran Actually Lives at Normandy
Sunday May 23, 2004
Eighty-one-year old Leon Gautier was part of the French Kieffer Commando that stormed Normandy just over 60 years ago. Today, he lives only a few hundred feet from the beach ... Read More
Flappers in the Roaring Twenties
Friday May 21, 2004
In the 1920s, a new woman was born. She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took ... Read More
Michael Moore's New Movie About 9/11
Tuesday May 18, 2004
Michael Moore's controversal movie Fahrenheit 9/11, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival over the weekend, looks at the events of September 11, 2001 through Moore's eyes. ... Read More
50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
Sunday May 16, 2004
May 17th is the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education that stated: "Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." The decision of ... Read More
U.S. Knew About Holocaust in 1942
Friday May 14, 2004
Historians have been pouring over approximately 240,000 documents about World War II that were recently released by the U.S. National Archives. Though the documents clearly state that there was ... Read More
The War is Over . . . Please Come Out
Wednesday May 12, 2004
Unaware that World War II had ended, Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army spent 30 years hiding on the remote Philippine island of Lubang. After years of living in ... Read More
Raputin's Preserved Penis Put on Display
Sunday May 9, 2004
In St. Petersburg, Russia, a new erotica museum will display the preserved penis of Rasputin. Rasputin, a Siberian peasant who claimed to have the power of healing and prediction, ... Read More
New Adolf Hitler Biography
Friday May 7, 2004
A short biography of the man considered one of the most evil people in history.
The Hindenburg Disaster
Thursday May 6, 2004
The suddenness of the disaster was shocking. At 7:25 p.m. on May 6, 1937, while the Hindenburg was attempting to land at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New ... Read More
Sinking of the Lusitania
Tuesday May 4, 2004
On May 7, 1915, the British passenger ship, the Lusitania, was sunk by a German U-boat. The high death toll shocked the world and the loss of American citizens swayed ... Read More
Diary Describing Einstein's Last Year Just Found
Sunday May 2, 2004
Albert Einstein's last girlfriend, Johanna Fantova, spent a lot of time with Einstein during his last years. In the Firestone Library at Princeton University, where Fantova had been the ... Read More
Mussolini's Home to Become Holocaust Museum
Saturday May 1, 2004
The home used by Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini from 1922 to 1943, the Villa Torlonia, will be turned into a Holocaust museum dedicated to Italy's victims of the Holocaust. ... Read More