During World War II, the Nazis built approximately 8,000 bunkers along the coast of Denmark (7,000 of them on the west coast) to guard against an Allied invasion. Each cement ... Read More

In a new memoir, Carol Thatcher, the daughter of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, reveals details of her mother's eight-year struggle with dementia. Carol first noticed her mother's impeccable memory ... Read More

Young boys sent to World War I contended with mud, blood, gore, and death. And though these young men grew up with Victorian values, they often used alcohol and sex ... Read More

The U.S. National Archives recently opened more than 35,000 files relating to the men and women who worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) prior to 1947. Among those ... Read More

Historians and archivists are constantly grappling with the question: What is worth preserving? We cannot save everything and yet we must decide what will be important to history in the ... Read More

In a recently released 500-page report, the Rwandan government accuses the French government of not only having prior knowledge of the 1994 Rwandan genocide but also actively aiding the perpetrators. ... Read More

Joseph Heller's famous novel, Catch-22, was first published in 1961. Set in World War II, the book is a comic satirical novel about bureaucracy. The phrase "Catch 22" in the ... Read More

Twenty pages of General Hideki Tojo's diary, covering the two weeks after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, were recently released by the Japanese National Archives and published in ... Read More

The History Channel has just created a five-part mini-series called, 50 Things You Need to Know About British History, which will air in the United Kingdom in September 2008. The ... Read More

On December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman shot ex-Beatles rock musician John Lennon in the back outside his New York apartment building. After shooting Lennon, Chapman pulled out a copy ... Read More

Nobel Prize-winning author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has passed away at age 89. Solzhenitsyn wrote about the horrors of the Communist system in the Soviet Union, which led to his exile in ... Read More