Jennifer's 20th Century History Blog April 2008 Archive

Since the end of World War II, Adolf Hitler's book, Mein Kampf has not been allowed to be published in Germany. However, in 2015, the copyright on the book will ... Read More

Charles Manson has become an icon of evil since his arrest for orchestrating the 1969 murders of seven people by his cult "family." Although sentenced to death, he was reprieved ... Read More

In United States history, the story of Native Americans is predominantly tragic. Settlers took their land, misunderstood their customs, and killed them in the thousands. Then, during World War II, ... Read More

It has been over 60 years since the Holocaust. To survivors, the Holocaust remains real and ever-present, but for some others, sixty years makes the Holocaust seem part of ancient ... Read More

When Lillian Asplund died at the age of 99 in 2006, she left behind a collection of 364 Titanic items. Asplund had been aboard the Titanic when it hit an ... Read More

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, most famous for being the author of The Little Prince, was 43 when he volunteered to help the Free French Forces in World War II. At 8:45 ... Read More

In Moscow, a new monument depicting Laika (the first animal in space) sitting in a rocket was placed at the Military Medicine Institute. The momument was unveiled just in time ... Read More

What if the diary written by Anne Frank's older sister, Margot, had also survived? Would this different perspective drastically change the telling of the experiences in the Secret Annex? Diana ... Read More

With horses, carriages, and automobiles all sharing the same roads in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the chaos on the streets needed to be regulated. To help solve the ... Read More

In 1958, British artist Gerald Holtom drew a circle with three lines inside, intending the design to be a symbol for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (DAC). Holtom ... Read More

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has partnered with Google Earth to create a single location that brings together testimonies, maps, video, and pictures of areas suffering from genocide. This ... Read More

Following her death on February 24, 2008, the British National Archives has recently released documents about a secret World War II spy who sometimes posed as a cosmetics saleswoman. Pearl ... Read More

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is probably best known for his New Deal plan to deal with the Great Depression, his leadership during World War II, and for overcoming his ... Read More

Since November 1982, anyone interested in seeing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("the Wall") had to go in person to Washington D.C. Now, the Wall is just a button click away. ... Read More

The town of Ypres in Belgium played an important role in World War I. Ypres was not only the scene of three major battles during World War I, it was ... Read More

A lot had happened to the white 1966 Lincoln Continental used by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the sanitation workers strike in 1968. The car, one of just a ... Read More

Yale University Press is working to digitize a large collection of correspondence from Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's private archive. This project, which is expected to take four years to complete, ... Read More