The Story of Us - from the beginning of time to the present - is usually written by "the victors." True-to-life events, however, must include opposing points of view. This collection features stories about people, places and events which go beyond "the already known and obvious."
This image depicts a leaf from a first-edition King James Bible, published in 1611. This page depicts the book of Matthew and shows verses 22 th...
People opposed to American women getting the vote created flyers like this one. It quotes a leading suffragist - then tries to destroy her argum...
Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition, by Owen Beattie and John Geiger, tells the story of the men who had served with Franklin, t...
Image of a front page of the Galveston Tribune a few months after the 1900 Hurricane which crippled the city and devastated its residents. ...
Ancient Greece was not a single, unified country. Instead, it was a country of strong city states (like Sparta and Athens) which were sometimes ...
This is the first page of a CIA Report which discusses aerial photography of the Auschwitz-Birkenau area. Click on the image for a better view.
This is a page from the Holocaust Revisited, a CIA Report about Allied aerial recon photos taken in the area of Auschwitz-Birkenau during the summer o...
Image of a letter, written by President Hoover, explaing the cause of the Great Depression and 1929's stock-market crash. Page 2-of-4 of the Ho...
Image of a letter, written by President Hoover, explaing the cause of the Great Depression and the stock-market crash of October, 1929. Page 3-...
Greek hoplites were infantrymen who fought their battles in tightly packed formations. They took their name ("hoplite") from the "hoplon," a shi...
The following is an English translation of three letters, to "Immortal Beloved," which were found after Beethoven's death. It is not known wheth...
When members of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) issued their findings on the disaster's cause, those findings coincided with the conc...
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