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.

Woolf's novel "Mrs. Dalloway," uses a "stream-of-consciousness" style to transform fiction writing.

Bram Stoker creates Dracula the vampire, based on the real life cruelty of Vlad the Impaler.

Wilberforce becomes religious and combines his strong faith with his politics.

The deaths of one black and two white freedom fighters goaded Congress into passing the first voting rights legislation since Reconstruction.

Pioneers and their loaded wagons move west, forcing Native Americans to leave their ancestral lands.

Read a poem about the life of Waleed Shaalan, a 32 year-old first year PhD student in Civil Engineering.

Wallace's trial takes place in London, where Edward can control the outcome of the "trial."

By September of 1297, Wallace isable to amassa substantial army of men willing to fight for Scotland's freedom.

Scotland makes Wallace a Knight andGuardianof the country; however, he keeps that position for about 300 days.

The English attack Joan's village and she sees horrible events before her family flees.

During much of Joan's life, the French and the English are actively fighting the Hundred Year War.

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gives President Johnson the ability to escalate America's involvement in Vietnam, but America resists the draft and prot...

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