PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – It was an extraordinary act of defiance, and it was extraordinarily risky. But all he did was take out a pen, and write. Nearly 40 years ago, hunched on the floor of the ...

A British soldier’s battered World War I diary recounting the bloody Battle of the Somme has been discovered in a U.K. barn. The diary, which was written in pencil by Private Arthur Edward Diggens of ...

experts begin with an object and then investigate its past, unraveling mysteries and finding the places where family stories and the nation's history intersect. The show, co-produced by and Lion ...

ST. LOUIS — An important piece of 1904 World's Fair history has been donated to the Missouri History Museum. It's a handwritten account from Adele Quinette, a young woman who attended the fair. Adele ...

The newest exhibit in the American History Museum's Albert H. Small Documents gallery has been a long time coming. The germ of the idea began in 1967 1966 when Cynthia Adams Hoover, then a young ...

Photo: Secretary of Defense Leone E. Panetta presents Vietnamese Minster of Defense, Phung Quang Thanh, with the diary of a Vietnamese soldier from the Vietnam War while visiting Hanoi, Vietnam, June ...

In 1947, "The Diary of a Young Girl," the personal journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was first published.The ...

An interesting artifact was unearthed and donated to The History Center recently — a diary from 1923 that features 365 entries. It was kept by a 22-year old man. Ocie Allen Small worked at a bank. The ...

Photo: Secretary of Defense Leone E. Panetta presents Vietnamese Minster of Defense, Phung Quang Thanh, with the diary of a Vietnamese soldier from the Vietnam War while visiting Hanoi, Vietnam, June ...

In 1947, "The Diary of a Young Girl," the personal journal of Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl hiding with her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II, was first published.The ...