When horrific things happen, how a person responds can make a difference in the rest of one's life. In this collection, learn how some individuals triumphed in the face of unspeakable tragedies.
Japanese anti-aircraft damage Super Man over Nauru, and bomb the island of Funafuti. Zamp and his crew use Green Hornet for a search and rescue missio...
A Soviet sub hit the Wilhelm Gustloff with three torpedoes.
In order to survive, starving men of the whaleship Essex resort to cannabilism, the very thing which kept them from seeking refuge at islands much-clo...
On November 5, 1872 citing the 14th Amendment, Susan B. Anthony casts her vote in the Presidential election.
In April 2009, a Mexican woman dies from a severe virus; soon many others are ill around the world. Scientists believe the H1N1 Swine Flu virus is the...
Zaitsev trains Tania Chernova, a female Russian-American, who seeks revenge against the Germans.
In November of 1989, the people of Berlin tear down a wall which divides their city into East and West. Two years earlier, President Reagan leads the ...
General Jackson, a strong Confederate commander, weeps over the death of a child and for his soldiers.
Most do not want Greeley to win, and although he receives women's support, they cannot yet vote.
The Tuskegee airmen in WWII fly mission as the 99th Pursuit Squad.
Douglass travels to speak and write against slavery, and becomes friends with other famous abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and John Brown.
President Lincoln relieves General Hooker of command because of his loss at Chancellorsville.
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