Famous Historical Topics & Events Story Briefs

For most of World War II, Germany provided its citizens with newsreel updates on the wars progress. This one depicts the invasion, and fall, of Belgiu...

James O'Donnell's book The Bunker is about the last days of the Third Reichbased on extensive eyewitness interviews and documents.

Allied forces searching for Nazi scientists discovered a hidden nuclear reactor and the world's first fighter jet developed under Hitler's rule.

All the Allies wanted to capture Wernher von Braun. On the morning of April 11, 1945, the Americans found his underground production facility.

Scientists working for Hitler's Third Reich continued to work, after the war, but for the United States. Historians believe that the U.S. rocket progr...

When Beethoven arrived in Vienna, in November of 1792 - after he'd left Bonn for good - the city was still one of the most sophisticated in Europe.

This photo is frequently mistaken as a picture of Homer Plessy.  It is actually Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (10 May 1837 - 21 December 1921...

The day after he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, in December of 1986, Elie Wiesel gave a Nobel lecture entitled "Hope, Despair and Memory."

General Washington wanted to capture the turn-coat Benedict Arnold. To help him achieve that goal, he needed John Champe (a trusted Patriot) to fake h...

When the orbiting space telescope known as Hubble was first released, it had blurry-vision! Astronauts, aboard a space shuttle, were sent to repair it...

Hubble, the orbiting space telescope, was carried into space by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery.

Huck Finn tells us that Jim, Miss Watson's African-American helper, tells great stories which travel far and wide.