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.
Thomas Edison's film company recorded many significant events during the early twentieth century.
About 600 civil-rights marchersmade their way across Route 80, in Selma, on the 7th of March, 1965.
New York City was clear and beautiful on the morning of September 11, 2001.
When American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, even reporters inside the building werent sure what was happening.
As news broadcasts aired the disaster at the World Trade Center's North Tower, another plane - United Flight 175 - struck the South Tower.
In 2001, Gedeon and Jules Naudet were filming a documentary about a young New York City firefighter from Engine 7, Ladder 1.
Four separate airplanes were hijacked on the morning of September 11, 2001.
Soon after the North Tower was damaged, another group of hijackers smashed a second plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
C.S. Lewis, an unmarried professor whom his friends called Jack, was a highly successful writer when he met an American woman named Joy Davidman Gresh...
When William T. Sherman, one of the Union's leading generals, led his troops on a mission now known as "Sherman's March to the Sea," his primary objec...
For a successful March to the Sea, General Sherman's plans had to remain secret.
Leaving Savannah, Sherman's troops continued to cover about ten miles a day.
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