World History Documents

Page from the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (also known as "Gustavus Vassa, The African"). One day the kidnapped boy, and other captive Africans, ...

During World War I, Britain's Ministry of Food enforced the country's ration orders.  Penalties were stiff. On 29 August 1918, for example, a vi...

Thomas Clarkson and his colleagues on the "Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade" wanted to create a visual picture of a slave's life during ...

Cornelius Jacob Langenhoven wrote the lyrics to "Die Stem Van Suid-Afrika" ("The Spirit of South Africa") in 1918.  Marthinus Lourens de Villiers...

Bookcover image of Digging Up Tyrannosaurus Rex by John R. Horner and Don Lessem.  In this book, learn the story behind the discovery of the worl...

Do you want to know more about how dinosaur fossils were discovered?  Do you want to explore some dinosaur controversies?  If so ... check o...

This document, from the National Archives, is the draft of President Reagan's famous speech which he delivered in Berlin.  Included here is the p...

This family tree depicts the genealogy for the House of Lorraine.  It begins with Adalbert Herzog von Ober-Lothringen, in 1047, to the abdication...

Dunkirk - also spelled Dunkerque - is located in northern France.  During late May and early June, of 1940, it was the scene of a disaster-in-the...

This image depicts extensive damage to Port Royal, Jamaica following a massive earthquake on June 7, 1692.   It is based on a copper etching...

From the safety of a ship, moored in the Port Royal harbor, Edmund Heath wrote a detailed account of what he had seen on the morning of June 7, 1692.&...

From the safety of a ship, moored in the Port Royal harbor, Edmund Heath wrote a detailed account of what he had seen on the morning of June 7, 1692.&...