It's never easy traveling with children and often it can be expensive. In the early 1900s, some people decided cut costs by mailing their children via parcel post. Sending packages ... Read More

Kenny Molzahn and Bill Downy, two high school social studies teachers from Green Bay, Wisconsin, have created a company that reproduces newspapers from the last 150 years for use in ... Read More

At the end of World War II, occupied Germany was divided between the Allied powers. Berlin, which had been the capital of Germany, lay 110 miles within the Soviet occupied ... Read More

On August 9, 1969, Charles Manson sent four members of his cult "Family" to a house on Cielo Drive in Los Angeles to kill those inside. Susan Atkins was one ... Read More

On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen opened fire upon protesting students at Kent State, killing four and wounding nine students. Robert Stamps, one of the nine wounded during the Kent ... Read More

Revolutionary leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara has become an icon of the 20th century. His image appears on coffee mugs and posters; movies have been made about his life. However, in ... Read More

While dredging a river to prepare an area for construction for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, military engineers discovered a very large, unexploded WWII bomb. The bomb, a 2200 ... Read More

The Los Angeles Fire Department recently released photos taken in the minutes following Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination, which took place at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. A fire ... Read More

The Israeli and Chinese governments are jointly developing a database that will hopefully contain information about all of the 30,000 Jews who escaped from Nazi persecution in Europe by fleeing to ... Read More

When Russian revolutionary leader V. I. Lenin died in 1924, his body went through an extensive process of embalming and then was put on display in a mausoleum in the ... Read More

In July 2008, a new Madame Tussauds wax museum will be opening in Berlin. The new museum, the eighth Madame Tussauds in the world, will have exhibits on German history, ... Read More

During World War II, the Japanese occupied the two western-most, U.S.-owned Aleutian Islands of Attu and Kiska after their invasion of the islands in June 1942. For nearly eleven months, ... Read More