On August 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, one of the most famous paintings in the world, was stolen right off the wall of the Louvre (famous museum in ... Read More

While living within the Third Reich, a group of about 5,000 German teenagers, most of them from working-class backgrounds, joined together to form the Edelweiss Pirates. The Edelweiss Pirates ... Read More

A large compilation of photos from the Great Depression, including photos of dust storms, farm foreclosures, migrant workers, women and children, unemployed workers, breadlines and soup kitchens.

On June 21, 1964, three young men (Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman) were investigating a burned church in Meridian when they were attacked by a large group of ... Read More

Sixty-five years after Trotsky's death, a woman claims to have the ice pick used by Ramon Mercader to assassinate Leon Trotsky on August 20, 1940. The woman, Ana Alicia ... Read More

In 1942, the U.S. government built Clinton Engineer Works (now known as

It might not be easy, but it tests how much you really know about the 20th century. How many can you get right on the newest history quiz?

On June 29, 2005, a new War of the Worlds movie will be released, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Steven Spielberg. This is a remake of the book ... Read More

On April 25-26, 1986 there was a nuclear meltdown at the nuclear power plant near Chernobyl, Ukraine. Thirty-two people died immediately and dozens more died of radiation sickness. For 19 ... Read More

It is known that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and his new wife, Eva Braun, committed suicide on April 30, 1945 in his bunker in Berlin. But what happened to ... Read More

Though most people take the transportation and delivery of their mail for granted, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has always been concerned about delivering mail quickly. Little known is ... Read More

Neil Armstrong has threatened to sue Marx Sizemore, owner and barber at Marx's Barber Shop in Lebanon, Ohio. Sizemore cut astronaut Neil Armstrong's hair, saved the hair clippings that ... Read More

Historians have discovered a schematic of a nuclear weapon that was designed by Nazi scientists. The drawing was found in an undated report believed to have been written immediately ... Read More

A new book, The Double Life of Charles A. Lindbergh, is being released in Germany next week that alleges famed aviator Charles Lindbergh had three mistresses and fathered ... Read More

For three decades, the true identity of "Deep Throat" remained an unsolved mystery that obsessed the nation. Deep Throat was the secret informant who gave Washington Post reporters Bob ... Read More