History in the News

Share + Jul 5, 2009 6:38 pm US/Central Reporting Maya Nishikawa 1 of 1 Victory Memorial Parkway has been a living tribute to the sacrifices of Hennepin County men and women during World War I. But it has been in need of a facelift.

Gettysburg National Military Park is commemorating the 146th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg with 20 different programs that follow and explain the battle in chronological order and as close as possible to the real time the events described took place.

A child infected with smallpox. The American Civil War is "inherently interesting," says Thomas G. Cropley, M.D., F.A.A.D., professor and chairman, department of dermatology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

Demilitarization Myths: from the Hall of Mirrors in 1919 to the Hills and Valleys of Judea and Samaria It will be forbidden to Germany to maintain or build fortifications... in this territory .... It is forbidden for Germany to maintain an army.... the German army will not include more than seven infantry divisions.... It is forbidden for Germany ...

APPLETON - Dick Nooe and his fellow U.S. Marines found themselves in a precarious situation on July 24, 1953.

National Archives visitors know they'll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building's magnificent rotunda in Washington.

President James Garfield was shot and mortally wounded in Washington on July 2, 1881 as he walked through the waiting room of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station on his way to catch a train to go to Williamstown, Mass., where he was to deliver a commencement speech at Williams College, from which he graduated with high honors in 1856.

The history of the economic crisis in Germany before the Second World War began with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko hope to reach out to Americans and Canadians of Japanese ancestry during a two-week tour that began Friday, but they won't be going to Pearl Harbor.

She's a leading Paris courtesan, that high-class brand of prostitute that had its heyday before the telephone created ''call girls.'' He is the son of a friend, a vain pretty-boy given to ''debauchery'' - wine, women and opium.

The Korean War Veterans of Rockland County will hold their annual tribute to the 27 Rockland men killed during the Korean War The event on July 26 at 2 p.m. will be held at the Korean War Memorial at the Onderdonk Veterans Cemetery on the Rockland Community College campus.

Outbursts calling for "further tightening than ever before the south Korea-U.S. alliance to firmly guarantee the U.S. nuclear support to south Korea" were heard from an "event commemorating the anniversary of the June 25 war" held in south Korea on June 25.

The Fourth of July will be rocking once again this weekend in local communities.

An American flag that waved over a French battlefield in World War I was destroyed Monday when fire ripped through the Veterans Memorial Community Center in Marysville, Calif., on Monday.

THE United States is losing its battle against bulging waistlines, with two-thirds of Americans now overweight or obese, according to an annual report released on Wednesday.

IT IS more than 50 years since Tom Barrie set off to fight in the Korean War. Just 19 years old, he was to spend two years in the war-torn country.

War veterans will gather at the National War Memorial in Wellington today to mark the 59th anniversary of the start of the Korean war.

Joyce Linkey said her grandmother used to tell the story of how her family, which lived outside McSherrystown in the early 1860s, would post a young boy high in a tree to keep watch for coming Union or Confederate troops.

FAMOUS DOG HAS HIS DAY Rin Tin Tin, 'the world's most famous German shepherd,' will make a personal appearance at the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial on Independence Day." Rin Tin Tin, 'the world's most famous German shepherd,' will make a personal appearance at the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial on Independence ...

A "reconciliation" concert will be held at Auckland's Avondale College tonight, with Korean performers easing the scars of a stabbing attack on a teacher.