On October 10, 2008, the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site held its grand opening. Located on the campus of Tuskegee University near Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama, the historic site ... Read More

When the news broke that an episode of a Belgian cooking TV show was to feature how to cook Adolf Hitler's favorite meal, many people were outraged. The episode, one ... Read More

At 6:22 a.m. on October 23, 1983, a truck carrying explosives drove into the United States barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. The massive explosion, estimated to be the equivalent of six ... Read More

Although most of the Berlin Wall was torn down after the checkpoints were opened on November 9, 1989, a three-quarter mile stretch of the wall was left intact as a ... Read More

The swastika is an extremely powerful symbol. The Nazis used it to murder millions of people, but for centuries it had positive meanings. What is the history of the swastika? ... Read More

The U.S. presidential race in 1908 featured William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) running against William H. Taft (Republican). Unlike presidential races today where candidates participate in televised debates, presidential candidates of ... Read More

Robben Island, just off the coast from Cape Town, South Africa, has a long history as a place of exile and imprisonment. However it is best known for the maximum ... Read More

Since the winners of the Nobel Prizes for 2008 were just announced, it seems a great time to take a look at how the Nobel Prizes began. It all started ... Read More

Located in Canton, Ohio, the First Ladies National Historic Site preserves the history of the U.S. First Ladies. The National Historic Site occupies two buildings: one was the childhood home ... Read More

Iqbal Masih was a young Pakastani boy who was forced into bonded labor at age four. After being freed at age ten, Iqbal became an activist against bonded child labor. ... Read More

In 1963, Betty Friedan's feminist book, The Feminine Mystique, hit the shelves. In this book, Friedan discussed her discovery of a problem that had formed within post-World War II society ... Read More

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) saw the overthrow of the Spanish republic and the subsequent ascension of Fascist dictator Francisco Franco. During the war and the four decades that Franco ... Read More

In the 1930's, the Nazis introduced a massive, compulsory sterilization of a large segment of the German population. What could cause the Germans to do this after having already lost ... Read More

On November 3, 1943, the Nazis committed simultaneous acts of mass murder of approximately 43,000 Jewish men, women, and children in three remaining camps in the Generalgouvernement (large area in ... Read More