Whether natural or man-made, disasters simultaneously cause massive destruction and unity of people trying to help those in need. Discover some of the world's worst disasters in this collection.
This text is an excerpt from the first chapter ("Anarchism and War") of Richard Polenberg's book Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court a...
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition, by Owen Beattie and John Geiger, tells the story of the men who had served with Franklin, t...
Image of a front page of the Galveston Tribune a few months after the 1900 Hurricane which crippled the city and devastated its residents. ...
Were crematoria, at Nazi camps, used to dispose of bodies of people who were gassed at these camps? The issue is still debated, particularly by indivi...
Nine days after the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush addresses a joint session of the 107th Congress. He pledges to defend America's fre...
This graph depicts the dramatic downturn in American rates of production during the Great Depression.
When word of the disaster in Chicago spread throughout America, people (and businesses) in other cities generously donated funds to help the sufferers...
This list - a continued compilation indicating U.S. cities quickly responding to Chicago's cries for help - shows how supportive Americans were for Ch...
Throughout the country, Americans responded to Chicago's pleas for help. When news of the disaster reached London - a city whose own residents h...
Bookcover image of SOS Wilhelm Gustloff. Die größte Schiffskatastrophe der Geschichte (SOS Wilhelm Gustloff. The Biggest Shipwreck in Histo...
This map depicts the location of other towns, outside of Port-au-Prince, which were damaged by the January 12th earthquake. Petit-Goâve an...
This map - from US AID - depicts the areas most impacted by Haiti's January 12, 2010 earthquake. Its key (at the lower left) explains color-code...
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