In a commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the China’s “victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression,” China hosted a gathering of 100 American veterans. The event ... Read More

An original 16-page manuscript of Einstein's last major theory from 1924 was recently discovered at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. The newly discovered manuscript was found ... Read More

Nearly sixty Japanese Americans interned in World War II-era concentration camps in the United States were awarded their high school diplomas in a ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday, ... Read More

South Korea and China have expressed outrage over what they believe is a whitewashing of Japan's militaristic history in Japan's recently-approved junior high textbooks. In an effort to promote ... Read More

Challenge yourself! Take this new quiz about the 20th century and find out how much you really know.

The Australian state of Western Australia has purchased a large collection of privately owned records of Aboriginal people in the area. The collection, which consists of 74,000 files and ... Read More

Two movies are in the works about September 11. One focuses on the hijacking and crash of United Flight 93 in Pennsylvania; it will be directed by British film-maker ... Read More

The New York Times has published (login required) the text of several dozen FDNY oral histories of September 11 on their site along with the audio of fire department ... Read More

In 2006, Hungary's Holocaust Memorial Center will include a permanent exhibit that focuses on the fate of four Hungarian-Jewish families. The museum has only featured temporary exhibitions since ... Read More

Although the Morse Code station at Point Reyes, California stopped transmitting and receiving messages to the high seas in 1997, radio operators tapped a 30-minute message from station KPH ... Read More

A temporary exhibition on the Nanjing Massacre opened on Wednesday at Beijing's National Museum. The exhibition is timed to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of China's victory ... Read More

John H. Johnson, the founder and publisher of Ebony and Jet magazine, died on Monday at the age of 87. Johnson was an influential African-American leader who furthered civil ... Read More

On August 6, 1945, the United States used a massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. This atomic bomb, the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT, flattened the city, killing tens ... Read More

A large compilation of photos of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including photos of the bombing, destruction, and victims.

Two historians claim they have found a typewritten journal written by Adolf Hitler's younger sister, Paula Hitler. In the journal, Paula describes her childhood, including beatings from Adolf and ... Read More