Videos

Civil War Battles

VIDEO: Battery H Of The 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery At Gettysburg

Vietnam

Dan Bullock: The youngest American killed in the Vietnam War

HistoryNet Video

Pearl Harbor Mystery

American History

Interview: Author Dorothy Love

Asia

Video: Expert Commentary, Ret. Army Col.’s Lessons for Fallujah from the Ground in Ramadi

WWII Battles

Video: World War II Veteran Gordon Hearne Describes The War Experience

Aviation History

Video: Yankee Air Museum ‘Bomber Buffing’ 2016

Aviation History

Video: Coast Guard Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard Helicopter Dedication at NASM

Art/Literature

Video: World War II-Era Cartoon Private Snafu Outwits Booby Traps

News

Video: ‘Glamour Girls of 1943’ World War II Propaganda

World War II

Video: ‘Two Down One To Go’ World War II Propaganda After German & Italian Defeat

Women

Video: Eleanor Roosevelt & ‘Women in Defense’ in 1941

Figures/Biographies

Video: World War II War Criminals Standing Trial

World War II

Video: The Real Nazi Invasion of Poland in World War II

World War II

Video: Japan Surrenders to Allies in World War II Newscast

World War II

Video: V-J Day Celebrations Across the US as Japan Surrenders

Today in History: Born on May 15

1622

Moliere [Jean Baptiste Poquelin], French comic dramatist best remembered for his play La Tartuffe.

1716

Philip Livingston, signatory to the Declaration of Independence.

1823

Mathew Brady, Civil War photographer.

1906

Aristotle Onassis, Greek tycoon.

1908

Edward Teller, Hungarian-born U.S. physicist known as the "Father of the H-bomb."

1929

Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1945

Princess Michael of Kent (Baroness Marie Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida von Reibnitz), married to Prince Michael of Kent, grandson of Britain's King George V.

1948

Ronnie Van Zant, singer, songwriter; founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd band.

1982

Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia.

Civil War Times

Interrupted Sentiments

The incredible story of thousands of soldier photographs and letters that never made it home

Civil War Figures

The Last Surviving Widow of the Civil War

A Missouri woman sacrificed much of her own life to help an aged Union veteran

Military History

The Nightingale’s Lament: Poetry of Rebellion

A poet's tribute to Indian soldiers who lost their lives fighting for Britain in World War I