On July 23, 1939, Mahatma Gandhi wrote a letter to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Gandhi was sincerely worried that the world was going to find itself in another war "which ... Read More

On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people on board as well as 11 on the ground. Eleven years later, a single ... Read More

For 64 years, a note in a bottle lay hidden in a cement wall. The note, dated September 20, 1944, lists the names and numbers of seven Auschwitz prisoners. Why ... Read More

We have all heard, and perhaps even personally used, the phrase, "the greatest thing since sliced bread!" Yet, when was sliced bread invented and why was it so amazing? Find ... Read More

Why did Jim Jones, the leader of the Peoples Temple cult, instructed his followers to commit revolutionary suicide? Why did they do what he told them to?

For decades, visitors to Benito Mussolini's hometown (Predappio, Italy) have been able to visit Mussolini's grave as well as shop for all kinds of fascist souvenirs. Visitors could buy such ... Read More

The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation has been raising private funds in order to build a monument to Martin Luther King Jr. in the National Mall of ... Read More

In 1994, the Hutu majority in Rwanda organized and implemented the mass slaughter of the Tutsi minority. In just 100 days, 800,000 Tutsi were slaughtered. Some of the dead were ... Read More

Produced by Thomas Edison but directed and filmed by Edison Company employee Edwin S. Porter, The Great Train Robbery was the first narrative movie, one that told a story. Learn ... Read More

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Though we should remember and learn about the Holocaust year-round, there is one day in the year when we make a special ... Read More

After years of dreaming about it and seven weeks of climbing, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Tenzing Norgay reached the top of Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the ... Read More

On Sunday, April 19, 2009, a brand new Holocaust Museum and Education Center is opening to the public in Stokie, Illinois. The museum will include a permanent exhibit that begins ... Read More

The destruction wrought by the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in 1986 continues. The radiation from the accident that spread across Europe continues to affect the lives of the population who live ... Read More

Since November 9, 2009 will be the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, preparations for a big celebration have already begun. Amidst the celebration will be a ... Read More

In the town of Hillah, just south of Baghdad, sits one of Saddam Hussein's empty presidential palaces. Although the palace had been looted and vandalized after Saddam's departure, there is ... Read More

Well, that might be a slight exaggeration, but many Indians are quite unhappy with James Otis, the man who decided to auction off Gandhi's personal items. Otis was a bit ... Read More

Diana, Princess of Wales was what some have called the People's Princess. Her life seemed like a fairytale until the realities of depression and a royal marriage were exposed. She ... Read More

At 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday, April 1, 2009, a bomb went off at the Lenin monument in St. Petersburg, Russia. The bomb blasted a three-foot hole in the famous 33-foot ... Read More

Hoping to complete the project in time for the Titanic's 100th anniversary in 2012, the city of Southampton in England is planning on building a Titanic museum. The museum, which ... Read More

When discussing the twentieth century, we often compare and contrast life from the year 1900 to the year 2000. We all realize that in the year 1900, people didn't have ... Read More