Famous Historical Topics & Events Story Briefs

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

Woodrow Wilson, about to be inaugurated as U.S. President, learns that American women are marching in protest against his stance on female voting righ...

La Marseillaise, the French national anthem, urges people to fight internal tyranny. See the English translation and listen to a spellbinding performa...

Had the war not ended when it did, the ME-262 would surely have had a major impact on the Allies' ability to stop Hitler.

Learn how the world's first photo was made, then create a "selfie" using that same heliographic process.

Lord Merseys findings, following considerable evidence given at the wreck inquiry, attribute the loss of the Lusitania to the U-boats actions against ...

According to the U.S. Army Center for Military History: "On 28 September these armies [the combined Franco-American forces] began siege operations, us...

As German invaders tried to take the territory in and around Ypres, Allies battled back to hold the Belgian town.

Prisoners at Cabantuan who were deathly ill were cared-for at 0" Ward.

A disaster occurs, for captured Africans, when a water shortage aboard a slave ship results in the deliberate killing of people (whom the crew and shi...

WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS SEGMENTS DEALING WITH SLAVERY AND THE CRUELTIES ASSOCIATED THEREWITH.

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