Tragedies and Triumphs Chapters

Anthony illegally votes in 1872 election. Political cartoons of the time, and later, scoffed at "woman suffrage."

Certain types of atoms, like uranium 235, can split. The splitting of those atoms is called nuclear fission.

See stunning pictures from the repaired Hubble telescope lens.

Throughout their ordeal, slave voices show that the human spirit can overcome almost anything.

Constant snowcover on K2 masks openings to ice caves and crevasses.

Artwork created by inmates and Soviet propaganda posters show details about prison life.

Dore, an artist from France, creates seventy-five images of Dante's Purgatory.

In March of 1977, the world's worst aircraft disaster occurs at Tenerife. After striking a Pan Am 747, a KLM 747 explodes in a ball of fire, killing e...

Read first person accounts from people inside the World Trade Center during the attacks.

Following FDR's Executive Order 9066, ten internment camps, located in seven states, received Japanese-American evacuees.

There is no solid proof that the duel between Konings and Zaitsev occurs, but it is fact that the Russian snipers help win the war.

This chapter details the chosen occupation of Jacobo Timerman.