Famous Historical Topics & Events Chapters

Kathe Kollwitz, a German mother and artist, creates drawings and sculptures that show her grief at losing her son during WWI.

While there are early warnings of a potential attack, the Office of Navy Intelligence does not believe them.

Boisjoly and colleagues continue to warn Morton Thiokol and NASA that an O-ring may fail if the temperature is too cold at launch time.

Pliny the Younger witnesses the eruption as townspeople take refuge in their homes.

The Warsaw Ghetto is the first step in the Nazi plan for extermination of the Jews.

Within two months of the Treaty of Paris,Washington resigns fromhis job as Commander-in-Chief.

With George Washington as the Commander of their army, the colonists use rebel tactics and ambushes to hold their ground.

Modern scholars wonder if other diseases and bacteria accompanied the medieval-era plague, and that's why it was so infectious and deadly.

In a 2003 outbreak, SARS appears similar to the Spanish flu, but is not the same. The Spanish flu first appears to be swine virus from China.

Huge fires break out in several other Midwest cities on the same day, in 1871, that Chicago burns.

Lizzie incriminates herself by giving testimony which makes little sense to Knowlton, the District Attorney.

Learn about the Battle of Waterloo, which serves as the backdrop to "Vanity Fair."