Tag: history
Historians question accuracy of Bill O'Reilly's book on Abraham Lincoln
In Killing Lincoln, Fox News star Bill O'Reilly tries to tell the story of the assassination of the 16th president. Historians, however, are criticizing him for what they say are the book's errors and inaccuracies....
Swaziland leader fought alongside Allied forces during World War II
Mnikwa Dlamini, an 88-year-old chief of Swaziland, is an unlikely World War II veteran. He fought to avoid becoming chief, and to win greater freedom for his country....
British Army museum makes room to remember forgotten war fighters: the army's horses
Near 100 years after their last major use in combat, the British Army museum is taking time to remember all the horses that were vital in war through the years....
Survivor of Stalin's prison camps runs first museum that looks at history of Russia's Gulags
Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko survived being sent to Josef Stalin's Gulag for crimes he didn't commit in the mid-20th Century. Now he runs a museum that looks at the history of the forced-labor camps in Soviet Union....
New book looks at John Brown's role in starting American Civil War
A new book by Tony Horwitz, an award-winning author and Civil War historian, looks at the history of John Brown and his role in starting the Civil War....
Implications of stunning 'Aboriginal Stonehenge' discovery
The discovery of the 50 meter egg-shaped arrangement of stones in a farmer's field in Victoria, Australia, could hold secrets to ancient Aboriginal astronomy....
Mysterious cave art thought to be done by children 13,000 years ago
Researchers think prehistoric drawings in the famous Rouffignac Cave complex in France may have been done by children, and that part of the cave served as a prehistoric daycare....
Bill O'Reilly's take on the Lincoln assassination
O'Reilly, who recently co-authored a new book on Abraham Lincoln, says the president's assassination set America back a hundred years in race relations....
Motown playlist: Supremes and Temptations 50 years on
Motown Records marks the 50th anniversary since Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations began making music history....
Fugitive George Wright captured after 41 years
George Wright, convicted for the murder of a service station worker during an armed robbery in 1962, was finally captured Monday in Sintra, Portugal....
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