Jennifer's 20th Century History Blog June 2006 Archive

The Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms are two museums that are both housed in what used to be a secret underground bunker during World War II. Learn more about ... Read More

A new search is on to find a gun that Nelson Mandela buried decades ago. Just weeks before his arrest at a farm in Rivonia, South Africa in 1962, Mandela ... Read More

The Minidoka Internment National Monument, the remains of a camp that held Japanese-Americans during World War II, became part of the U.S. National Park System in 2001. Recently, the National ... Read More

What a fun way to learn about history! In these history games, I give you ten hints and you try to guess the historical person or event. Good luck with ... Read More

On June 16, 2006, just over seven years after the murders, nearly two thousand people watched as construction began on the memorial to honor those killed during the Columbine Massacre. ... Read More

At 7:25 p.m. on May 6, 1937, while the Hindenburg was attempting to land at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, a flame appeared on the outer cover ... Read More

Henry Ford became an icon of a self-made man. He began life as a farmer's son and quickly became rich and famous. Although an industrialist, Ford remembered the common man. ... Read More

In 1944, Lt. Hiroo Onoda was sent by the Japanese army to the remote Philippine island of Lubang. His mission was to conduct guerrilla warfare during World War II. Unfortunately, ... Read More

The American Red Cross is the only congressionally mandated organization to provide aid to victims of disaster and is responsible for fulfilling the mandates of the Geneva Convention within the ... Read More

The fire at the Triangle Waist Company factory in New York City on March 25, 1911 killed 146 workers. The large number of deaths exposed the dangerous conditions in high-rise ... Read More

Newly declassified documents at the National Archives show that the United States knew Adolf Eichmann's location but kept it secret. According to the documents, the CIA knew that Eichmann ... Read More

A large compilation of pictures of D-Day, including preparation, crossing the English Channel, landing on the beaches at Normandy, and casualties.

At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a shot rang out. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel ... Read More

As a state-level History Day judge this year, I was both impressed and inspired by the student participants. In my article, I share some of my experiences and anecdotes.