20th Century

"...with the dead body of his son for company on the last half of the trip and himself de...

April 16th. The year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama has had a spring of non-violent protest...

In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamenta...

Explore the captivating life of George Patton.General George S. Patton remains a househol...

t all began on Memorial Day, May 31, 1921. Around or after 4:00 p.m. that day, a clerk at...

Overall, Tulsa in 1921 was considered a modern, vibrant city. What had fueled this remark...

Christmas 1941 came little more than two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The shoc...

The companion volume to the PBS documentary film about the first—and perhaps most a...

No single figure in 20th century American history inspires such opposing opinions as J. E...

Shortly after taking office in 1933 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered the fir...

If you want to discover the captivating life of Fred Rogers, then pay attention... M...

Explore the captivating history of the Titanic.When thinking about the worst known mariti...

Throughout the history of warfare, the practice of placing blame on innocent parties in ...

A recording made on November 18, 1978, at the People's Temple compound in Jonestown, Guya...

20th century Chicago was an ideal breeding ground for organized crime. A buzzing circuit...

On paper, the extraordinarily unorthodox ideology spouted by Heaven's Gate ranks near th...

While the period from 1945-1955 was the longest and most extensive period of time in Amer...

Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, ...

Although half of the population, women were treated as second class citizens in the Unite...

“As the spring and summer of 1848 advanced, the reports came faster and faster fro...

Outbreaks of disease, much like wars, inevitably produce a series of public figures who ...

Taken from the actual newspaper reports, written in 1929 and the 1930s, this captures the...

The 28-year period from 1933-1961, bracketed on one end by Hitler’s rise to power i...

A collection of speeches given by Dwight D. Eisenhower.Speeches included are:• 101st...

A collection of 67 original recordings of speeches significant in United States and world...

This is the saga of one of the most fabulous characters that ever lived: Ben Hogan, bette...

America’s obsession with its own history has resulted in innumerable bestsellers. L...

History is dramatic-and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James...

Although Apollo 11’s successful mission to the Moon is seen as the culmination of t...

The Apollo space program is the most famous and celebrated in American history, but the ...

After criticizing US involvement in WWI, Eugene Debs found himself testifying in court fo...

On June 16, 1918, union leader Eugene Debs delivered this speech at the Ohio State Social...

President Woodrow Wilson delivered this address on January 22, 1917, a few months before ...

With this 1914 address, President Woodrow Wilson declared his intentions for the US to re...

Woodrow Wilson became the 28th president of the United States when he beat out President ...

President Woodrow Wilson delivered this address to the 1914 graduates of the US Naval Aca...

With this 1990 speech, American politician William Jennings Bryan presents a compelling a...

On March 4, 1921, Warren G. Harding became the 29th President of the United States and de...

During his time as Ohio Senator and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Har...

Many consider Theodore Roosevelt to be America’s most conservation-minded president...

20th century Chicago was an ideal breeding ground for organized crime. A buzzing circuit ...

“I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ...

 “This American system of ours ... call it Americanism, call it capitalism, ca...

"The Work of a Nation. The Center of Intelligence." When people think about the Second W...

“This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to hel...

 “Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of t...

For more than a century, radio has been a part of people’s lives. No one alive toda...

Several years before Mariner 9’s successful orbiting mission, NASA had begun design...

Space exploration was always an expensive business, and throughout NASA’s history,...

In time, all the hard work led to the growth of the OSS into an organization with over 13...