Armenian Genocide
During World War I, the Turkish government ordered the deportation of Turkish Armenians. More than one million Armenians perished. Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 Over Lockerbie
On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people. What happened to the plane? Why would someone plant a bomb on Flight 103? Why did it take eleven years to have a trial?
The Holocaust
The Nazis murdered over 6 million Jews and 5 million others during the Third Reich. Why did they kill? Why did others not stop them? What was life like in a concentration camp? Japanese-American Internment Camps
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans of Japanese ancestry were taken from their homes and placed in concentration camps. Learn more about this breach of constitutional rights. JFK Assassinated
At 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy was shot while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. The news of JFK's death shocked the world. The Mona Lisa Was Stolen!
Follow this two year long caper that shocked the world. The Monkey Trial
In 1925, a young biology teacher, John Scopes, was arrested for teaching evolution and put on trial. Learn more about the highly publicized "Monkey Trial" which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan. Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
There were so many in Nazi Germany that were guilty, but at Nuremberg the Nazi leaders were brought to trial. How do you try criminals of an enemy state? What would they be charged with? Who should be charged? Who was found guilty? Rwandan Genocide
Though many would like to thing that the last great genocide of the twentieth century was the Holocaust, they are wrong. In 1994, the Hutus in Rwanda murdered 800,000 Tutsi in just 100 days. Typhoid Mary
Typhoid Mary had no idea that she was infected with the disease, yet her work as a cook infected many. Find out all about Typhoid Mary and why authorities had a difficult time capturing her. Watergate Scandal
U.S. President Richard Nixon resigned due to the huge scandal caused by the break-in at the Watergate building.
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