When Adolf Hitler was in prison after his failed coup of the German government, he wrote his manifesto, titled Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"). In 1925, Hitler received a handful of ... Read More

The Dachau Concentration Camp was one of the first camps established by the Nazis in 1933. Learn more about the camp through this vast collection of historical pictures of Dachau, ... Read More

Mahatma Gandhi spent twenty years in South Africa working to fight discrimination. One of the houses in which he lived there for three years is now up for sale. Nancy ... Read More

At 9:49 a.m. on Saturday, July 28, 1945, a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building. Find out why the bomber crashed and what happened to the Empire ... Read More

What was said between former President Richard Nixon and his chief of staff H.R. Haldeman during those 18 minutes lost on the Watergate tape? Although an analysis of the tape ... Read More

Among an exhibition of 700 garden gnomes being displayed in Nuremberg, Germany, sits a gold-painted garden gnome which has one arm raised in the Nazi salute. Investigators are trying to ... Read More

When Sumner Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas refused to allow black students to enroll in their school, local parents sued the school board in what became the landmark Brown v. ... Read More

Have you ever wondered what TV shows extraterrestrials would be watching if they were monitoring our broadcasts? Actually, me neither until I saw this really interesting map. The map of ... Read More

Before Anne Frank was transported to Auschwitz, she and her sister Margot were kept in the Westerbork Camp in the Netherlands. The particular barracks that housed Anne Frank had been ... Read More

Walter Cronkite died on Friday, July 17, 2009. Cronkite, anchor for the "CBS Evening News" program from 1962 to 1981, was known as "the most trusted man in America." He ... Read More

This is something I have never seen before. This new website, We Choose the Moon, has a real-time recreation of the Apollo 11 mission. (After the landing on July 20, ... Read More

How many people were killed in the Holocaust? What does the word Shoah mean? What was the largest Nazi concentration camp? Learn the answers to these questions plus much more ... Read More

In a new, controversial biography, author Charles Higham alleges that famous actor Errol Flynn was a secret spy for the Nazis. Higham also states that Flynn met Hitler. Flynn's family ... Read More

In the midst of a major scandal at the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois (about 20 miles southwest of Chicago), police discovered the original casket of Emmett Till. Police ... Read More

When Saddam Hussein was captured on December 13, 2003, he was found in an eight-foot-deep hole, disheveled and accompanied by an unloaded gun -- a 9mm Glock 18C to be ... Read More

The Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States was a heated competition in the 1960s. As the U.S. prepared to send the first man to the moon, ... Read More

A new law in Philadelphia requires historical tour guides to take a test before they give their first tour. The law was created to stop gross inaccuracies from being perpetuated ... Read More

Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense for both President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, died July 6, 2009. McNamara had been president of Ford Motor Company and ... Read More

Looking back through old advertising can be like taking a stroll through history. One might come across an ad for one of your favorite childhood games or see the prices ... Read More

The remains of two American soldiers killed during the Vietnam War have been returned to the United States for identification. The U.S. and Vietnam have been working together to search for ... Read More

In 1944, the United Kingdom considered a chemical weapons attack on Tokyo in a effort to win the war. Two types of gas, phosgene and mustard gas, were considered for ... Read More

A monument in honor of September 11th firefighters at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, Maryland was financed through a complicated Ponzi scheme. The end result is that the statue ... Read More

The first item sold after being scanned with a UPC barcode was a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum. The sale occurred at 8:01 a.m. on June 26, 1974 at ... Read More

.At 7:14 a.m. on June 30, 1908, a giant explosion shook central Siberia. The explosion, called the Tunguska Event, caused a magnitude 5.0 earthquake and leveled 80 million trees. ... Read More