Famous Historical Topics & Events Documents

What are some of history's key stories and events which remain famous to this day? Check-out some of those topics.

This is the third page of Hitler's final Political Testament, dictated to his secretary (Traudl Junge) shortly before he killed himself as the Soviet ...

This is the last page of Part One of Hitler's Political Testament.  He dictated this document to his secretary, Traudl Junge, not long before he ...

Adventures Inside the Atom, a 1948 comic book produced for GE (by General Comics, Inc.) at the request of the Atomic Energy Commission, tells "The Sto...

This document, written in Russian, is the Agreement by which the United States purchased Alaska from Russia.  To some individuals, this purchase ...

The evidence describing President Lincoln's last 24 hours is not always consistent.  What really happened that day, leading up to Lincoln's fatal...

Ammianus Marcellinus wrote an important history about the late Roman Empire. From a noble Greek family, Ammianus was born in Antioch (now known as Ant...

ANATOMY OF A CONTROVERSY:Anatoly F. Dobrynin’s Meeting With Robert F. Kennedy, Saturday, 27 October 1962 by Jim Hershberg - Article online at ...

This image is a facsimile of the signatures which appear on the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

This is an excerpt from Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland - James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick Witches - by Lawrence Normand and Gareth Rob...

This document depicts, in part, President Woodrow Wilson's Declaration of War against Germany, launching America's involvement in World War One. ...

This is page two of the letter to President Lincoln, from Frederic Bates, warning of an assassination plot. Bates had apparently overheard a discussi...

Among President Lincoln's papers, which are maintained at the Library of Congress, is a letter warning the President of an assassination plot against ...

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