History Highlights

He is best known as Dubya. WatchMojo learns more about the life and accomplishments of President George W. Bush.

Former Solicitor General Walter Dellinger delves into why some early opponents of the U.S. Constitution took issue with ratifying the document. Dellinger describes how Constitutional supporters were nearly derailed by advocates opposed to a strong central government, a debate he compares to the populist politics of today.

WatchMojo takes a look at the Boston Bruins, an NHL team that set the record for best-ever regular season winning percentage in 1929-30.

It's the 70th anniversary of the "Day of Infamy", the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on Sunday December 7, 1941. And as Len Berman reports despite the start of World War II, the NFL kept playing.

In this WatchMojo video, we take a look at the history of the largest green-field music and performing arts event known as the Glastonbury Festival.

This annual festival combines music, art, ritual and a sense of kinship with a spectacular and large-scale celebration. But once the week is up, it all goes up in flames.

In August 1969, Charles Manson instructed a group of his followers to gruesomely murder a number of innocent people to ignite a race war. WatchMojo learns more about the crimes, trial and conviction of Manson and his Family.

Try to guess the purpose behind the making of this Counter Top Cutting Device.

Carter Godwin Woodson was the first African-American historian. Woodson founded Black History Month, and his work helped highlight the contribution made by blacks throughout history.

While they may seem primitive now, the weapons of World War I completely revolutionized warfare. In Part 6 of our series on WWI, http://www.WatchMojo.com profiles the weapons and technology used in the First World War.

This was the day that Mozart was born, the peace agreement to end the Vietnam war and Michael Jackson's hair was set on fire.

This was the day that England's King Henry VIII died, Pride and Prejudice was first published and Lego was patented.

In this video, WatchMojo traces the history of Russia from the Russian Revolution to the birth and collapse of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Russian Federation during the twentieth century.

This was the day that Oprah Winfrey was born and Karl Benz patented the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.

Find out who the greatest lost civilizations of antiquity were.