Allison McNearney

The U.S. government, for its part, tried to assure the rest of the country that its policy was justified, and that those Japanese Americans forced to live in the internment camps were happy.

Once upon a time, Hollywood was just a solitary adobe hut in the empty countryside of the newly formed state of California.

The dangerous feat of knife throwing was part of the larger tradition of "impalement arts" in the circus.

Despite not being a registered voter, or even a resident of New York, RFK received special permission to run for Senate. He won the race against incumbent Republican Senator Kenneth Keating by 700,000 votes.

A lot has changed in "The City that Never Sleeps" since the 1940s, but a lot has stayed the same.

The holiday did not officially become Memorial Day until nearly a century after it began.

Gas masks have been on the front lines of protecting both soldiers and civilians against weapons that are largely invisible and indiscriminately deadly.

Although he was not alive to see it happen, getting an American to the moon was John F. Kennedy's ultimate dream.