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.
In 1997, "Amistad" (the movie) is released in remembrance of the captives, and a replica ship tours across America.
Survivors do the best they can to pitch tents, find food and water, and look out for the children.
The Sword of Stalingrad is presented to the Russian people by Winston Churchill to honor their suffering and heroism.
The Stalingrad people are recognized for their suffering and heroics and presented with tributes.
Tuskegee Institute is a flight school that graduates African American pilots.
With a full scholarship, Nash attends Princeton and is surrounded by other geniuses.
Before her death in 1968, Helen earns the Presidential Medal of Freedom and joins the Woman's Hall of Fame.
When Abe Lincoln was a young boy of seven, he nearly drowned in Knob Creek.
Who was "Stonewall" Jackson, how did he get his nickname and why did he become so famous?
Read a poem about people not involved in the massacre but who grieve with the rest of the world.
Dostoevsky completes his novel just in time and continues to gamble until he overcomes that addiction; he then focuses on writing novels. He dies soo...
102 passengers, 41 of whom are Pilgrims, set out in the Mayflower on a late-fall journey across the sea to Virginia.
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