In Great Britain, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers has recently declared that the current school curriculum focuses too much on rote tasks (such as memorizing historical dates) and neglects ... Read More

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was often filmed riding around in his 1935 Alfa Romero 6C 2300 Pescara Spyder. Although Mussolini had his two-door, convertible Spyder specialized by adding horsepower, he ... Read More

April 4, 2008 will mark the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. When I realized it has been 40 years since his death, my ... Read More

Even more than six decades after his death, we are still learning about Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Recently, previously unseen pictures of Hitler surfaced in an album found in Derby, ... Read More

On March 16, 1968, the U.S. soldiers of Charlie Company, 11th Infantry Brigade, Americal Division entered into the village of My Lai in Vietnam and opened fire. Although there were ... Read More

On September 9, 1956, Elvis made his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Although this was not Elvis' first national television appearance, it did help to make Elvis a ... Read More

Although there are other monuments along the Normandy beach, the first monument dedicated to the Navy's role in WWII's D-day will be unveiled on September 27, 2008. The sculpture, created ... Read More

When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office on March 4, 1933, the United States was in desperate economic need. By 1933, the U.S. was already knee-deep into the Great Depression - ... Read More

Saturday, March 8, 2008 marked the long-awaited grand opening of the Northwest African American Museum (NAAM) in Seattle, Washington. The museum is housed in the 18,000 square-foot first floor of ... Read More

For 18 months, hundreds of experienced miners and tunnelers from England and New Zealand worked diligently under the French city of Arras. Their goal was to link the numerous, old, ... Read More

For eleven years, including six years after the terrorist attack, a seven-foot-tall sign has stood strong on the corner of Church and Cortlandt Streets in New York City, providing information ... Read More

Unlike several other Japanese-American internment camps from World War II, the one at Honouliuli in Hawaii has lain overgrown and nearly forgotten for decades. After its location was rediscovered in ... Read More