The mysterious Grigory Efimovich Rasputin, a peasant who claimed powers of healing and prediction, had the ear of Russian Tsarina Aleksandra. Yet Rasputin was seen as "the dark force" that ... Read More

The continued controversy over the proposed building of the International Freedom Museum on the site of the World Trade Center caused New York Governor George Pataki to scrap the project.

In 2005, an independent researcher found about 60 previously unpublished photographs of the Scopes Trial (the "Monkey Trial") in the Smithsonian Institution Archives. All the newly found photographs were ... Read More

Laika, a small and cute dog, was launched into space by the Russians on November 3, 1957, becoming the very first animal in space. Check out my new video ... Read More

Here's a great article about the plans and efforts to preserve New Orleans' history and culture. The need to act quickly is most apparent due to the hurricane - ... Read More

Although September 11 is now designated as Patriot Day, some historians feel that the date will lose its significance in the United States. They fear Patriot Day will become ... Read More

Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal died on September 20, 2005 in Vienna. He was 96 years old. Boston.com provides a lengthy obituary.

The Gypsies of Europe were registered, sterilized, ghettoized, and then deported to concentration and death camps by the Nazis. Approximately 250,000 to 500,000 Gypsies were murdered during the Holocaust - ... Read More

Historian Douglas Brinkley, author of Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War, has signed a book deal with publisher William Morrow. The book is tentatively titled ... Read More

Though former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was convicted in June 2005 of murdering three Civil Rights workers in 1964, he was released from prison after only serving ... Read More

During World War II, the Nazis wanted to disrupt life in Britain. In recently declassified MI5 files, a Nazi scheme to disguise bombs as chocolate bars was found. ... Read More

There are hundreds of thousands of photographs of the Great Depression and World War II in black-and-white, but now the U.S. Library of Congress has a display of color photographs ... Read More

A newspaper mistakenly ran an obituary for Alfred Nobel which called him the merchant of death. Not wanting to go down in history with such a horrible epitaph, Nobel created ... Read More

New Orleans city historian Sally Reeves chose to experience history herself by riding out Hurricane Katrina at home. Reeves has lived in her home of 61 years and expects ... Read More

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