Famous Historical Topics & Events Chapters

What are some of history's key stories and events which remain famous to this day? Check-out some of those topics.

Read a poem about the life of Leslie Sherman, a 20 year-old junior in History and International Relations.

Warned by Paul Revere, colonial soldiers stand their ground at Lexington against the British; this begins the American Revolutionary War.

The location of the invasion is a secret, but battle details are planned and practiced.

T-Rex is an extinct, North American meat-eating dinosaur first rediscovered in 1902 by Barnum Brown.

Letters From a Broken Apple is an illustrated comic of Neil Kleid's view of New York on September 11.

First-hand accounts of Japanese preparations on Iwo Jima come from letters General Kuribayashi and others write home.

Lewis and Clark reach their goal, the Pacific Ocean, in early January 1806.

By the time a guard of British soldiers arrived at the town of Lexington - on April 19, 1775 - most of the minutemen under Captain John Parker's comma...

Hitler orders the destruction of Paris because liberation is near; Paris is free in August 1944.

Thomas Nickerson, George Pollard and Owen Chase returned to Nantucket after the wreck of the Essex. Each coped in different ways as they tried to reco...

Mike Williams jumps 10-stories from the Deepwater Horizon rig to save himself, but 11 other men die and 17 are injured.

Margaret's popularity goes downhill after tax law problems; she argues with her own party members.

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