Disasters Chapters

Whether natural or man-made, disasters simultaneously cause massive destruction and unity of people trying to help those in need. Discover some of the world's worst disasters in this collection.

General Eisenhower visits many Nazi death camps to document their existence and crimes.

Starving families, with no home, walk the roads to nowhere until they die.

Read a poem about the life of Emily Hilscher, a 19 year-old freshman in Animal and Poultry Sciences.

The fighting stops on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month in 1918. Germany loses the war and territory, which sets up the scenario for H...

This map, from PBS' "American Experience," depicts the areas where whales were captured between 1790 and 1924. Data for the map was retrieved from a s...

Germans force Jewish families to leave the Warsaw Ghetto on trains to a concentration camp.

Dwellings are destroyed to ensure that the homeless of Ireland have no place to go.

Photos taken early in 1944 show evidence of gas chambers before the Nazis try to tear down the buildings and leave.

As Russia is in full-scale revolution, the entire Romanov family is executed.

A chain of events weakens Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer.

After launch, a piece of external-tank insulation breaks loose and strikes Columbia's left wing.

Did sperm whales attack whaling vessels during the 18th century? What are the facts and myths about these huge cetaceans?

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