History

Delivered by President Kennedy before the American Society of Newspaper Editors at Washington, D.C., April 20, 1961.

The international foundation for the commemoration of the Holocaust and its lessons.

Information on the Jewish children, Anne Frank, and photos..

Story of the daughter of Adolf Hitler's close friend and personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann.

Release from a Nazi concentration camp as written by George Liebermann.

A look back at the conflict, one of post-independence Africa's first and most bloody wars.

An article which calculates the cost of war and the futility behind spending such big amounts towards war expenses by Shrikant Rao.

Book by John R. Nordell Jr., with overview and reviews.

Covers the aircraft used during the Indochina War, with a particular focus on modelling.

Essay by Jorian Polis Schutz examining the impact of the 1979 Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua.

Information on the second United Nations mission in Somalia prepared by the Department of Public Information.

Comprehensive article of the civil war, including main events and issues, political and military organizations, and battles and personalities.

Site dedicated to the events of Nov. 1965 at LZ XRAY in the Ia Drang Valley; the first major battle of the US forces.

An annotated list of books, videos, and music.

Transcript of "A Television History; Roots of a War (1945-1953)", made in 1983 for the PBS.

President Johnson's message to Congress on August 5, 1964.

The program of the People's Revolutionary Party of January, 1962.

News, research and analysis about the Great War, from leading academics and researchers worldwide.

Articles include biography of Adolf Hitler, important dates, casualty figures, high commands, trivia, recommended books, and glossary of operations, equipment, and organizations.

First-hand excerpts regarding Cabot's voyages, from the Modern History Sourcebook.

Biography of the explorer with details of his Southern Ocean voyages.

Captain Cook Memorial Museum located in John Walkers's House, Whitby, where James Cook served his seaman's apprentiship, important collection of original pictures, manuscripts and artefacts from Cook's life and voyages.

Biography from the PBS series site "The West."

Detailed introduction to the Dutch ship Henry Hudson commanded in 1609.

Biography from the Handbook of Texas Online.

A few historical FAQs, with an expedition map.

The National Archives and Records Administration's exhibit of original documents from the expedition.

Biographical article from the Catholic Encyclopedia.

Concise biographical article from the Catholic Encyclopedia.

Charity named after one of Shackleton's vessels. Illustrated expedition summary, with information, news, and publications.

A Soviet space expert discusses how recently declassified material confirms his painstaking discoveries over decades about why the Soviet Union was unable to win the space race.

Biography of the first woman in space.

A selective chronology of historically important manned space missions from 1961 to 1995. Some flights not covered.

Photographs of mission patches and astronauts.

Presents a brief multimedia history of John Glenn's Mercury flight, the first American mission into Earth orbit. Discusses the training and technology of the Mercury Program and the events of Glenn's space flight.

A biography of Edward Teach, one image.

Links to information about several German ships launched prior to the First World War.

Information from the official Nobel Prize site.

Created a semi-automatic key to help prevent telegrapher paralysis, created by the daily abuse of manipulating a manual Morse telegraph key. Includes biography and the spread of this invention across the United States.

Peer-reviewed journal of the Society for the History of Technology. Subscription information, submission guidelines, and free access to tables of contents and abstracts.

Traces the history of undersea cable communications, from the first telegraph cables used in 1850 to the fiber optic cables used today for the Internet.

Old time telegraphers tell their stories. Taken from early editions of Railroad Man's Magazine.

Biography of this African-American engineer and inventor, who developed and patented several inventions relating to telegraphy.

Offers a brief biography and a suggested reading list for more information.

Photo of the memorial to Adam Sedgwick in the village of Dent in Cumbria. Brief details of the 'Sedgwick Geological Trail'.

Biography of the co-founder of Burroughs Wellcome, who spent his boyhood on the Minnesota frontier. With footnotes and related links.

Publish work on all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. Includes free sample issue and instructions to authors.

Information about this prison reformer and minister of the Religious Society of Friends.

Resources including slave narratives, biographies of abolitionists, images, poetry, links, and further readings.

An overview that includes the impact of Hammurabi, the cult of Anu, the triads, and a chronology.