Geography provides a sense of place. What a country has, in terms of strategic location and natural resources, can determine its role in the world. See why geography matters in this collection of stories.
Confederate and Union soldiers fight for the first time at Bull Run on July 21, 1861.
Words that help you understand butterflies and their lives.
Learn what it is like to be a soldier during the Civil War through pictures from the National Archives.
Many Japanese Americans go to Camp Manzanar, receive vaccinations, and live in desert conditions.
Photographs, documents and drawings show the appalling life in prisoner of war camps O'Donnell and Cabanatuan.
Canadian troops land at Juno Beach and face fierce German opposition.
Many Atlantic hurricanes begin in the warm ocean waters near the Cape Verde Islands off the western coast of Africa.
How Captain Cook changed the way Hawaiians lived.
Although no one can be totally sure, and the author of "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" denies it, Amos Pampaloni may be the real person upon whom the fic...
In20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne introducesCaptain Nemoand theNautilus, a submarine.
George Pollard, a Nantucket-based whaler whose first command was the whaling ship Essex, made a series of mistakes soon after leaving the harbor in Au...
Carl Hanratty is the FBI agent in the movie who first catches Abagnale, but he is able to escape.
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