Jennifer's 20th Century History Blog December 2007 Archive

In recently declassified documents, it has been discovered that J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, sent a plan to the White House on July 7, ... Read More

J. Russell Coffey was one of the last three known living U.S. World War I veterans. Coffey, who was born in 1898, joined the Army Training Corp in October 1918, ... Read More

Since 1927, TIME Magazine has chosen a man, woman, or idea that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year." In the past, such heroes and ... Read More

On Friday, December 21, 2007, Queen Elizabeth II becomes the oldest reigning monarch in British history. Queen Elizabeth will be passing Queen Victoria, who had held the record of being ... Read More

Paddy the pigeon was awarded the PDSA Dickin Medal, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, on September 1, 1944 for his brave actions during World War II. Paddy was ... Read More

Henry Ford became an icon of a self-made man. Although an industrialist, Ford remembered the common man. He designed the Model T for the masses, installed a mechanized assembly line ... Read More

It had only been five years since Orville and Wilbur Wright made their famous flight at Kitty Hawk. By 1908, the Wright brothers were traveling across the United States and ... Read More

At 4:07 p.m. on September 6, 1901, Leon Czolgosz shot U.S. President William McKinley twice. Although many expected the President to recover after having emergency surgery, President McKinley died at ... Read More

On December 7, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, bringing the United States into World War II. Learn more about what it was like on the ground by browsing ... Read More

In January 2007, a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and former member of the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) donated a very unique photo album to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum ... Read More

J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Manhattan Project, the U.S.'s attempt during World War II to create an atomic bomb. Oppenheimer's struggle after the war with the morality ... Read More