Whether it's people, places or events which fuel "the news," the fabric of our lives is impacted by world events. This collection features stories from ancient to modern times.
Take a virtual tour to visit some of the places Alexander conquers.
Allan Quartermain, a hunter/explorer, is the hero ofH. Rider Haggard's novelKing Solomon's Mines.
In 1914 Britain enters the war because Germany invades Belgium. Many leaders of all involved countries are relatives.
Edgardo Mortara is a Jewish child, living in a Papal State, who is legally removed from his home under canon laws regarding baptism.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer keeps his faith in the goodness of God even as the Nazis hang him.
This image depicts the site where Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed at Flossenburg. His body was cremated thereafter and his ashes were reportedly scat...
John Newton wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace" years after a dangerous sea voyage.
America captures its first U-boat, the U-505, off the coast of French West Africa.
The U.S. enters the war in April 1917 using the sinking of the Lusitania as the main reason.
Life in America in 1898 is very different from life today.
Photographs, audio/video footage, documents, eyewitness testimony and memoirs all prove that the Holocaust occurs.
Young Americans want to fly combat missions for France during WWI; they form the Escadrille Americaine (American Squadron).
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