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.

566 CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION PEARL HARBOR ATTACK[1095] TESTIMONY OF LT. COL KERMIT A. TYLER, AIR CORPS, ORLANDO, FLA., ARMY AIR FORCE BOARD(The wit...

This image depicts the letter which Sandie Pendleton wrote to his father after the death of General Stonewall Jackson. Click on the image for a bette...

Bookcover image of Rettung über die Ostsee. Die Flucht aus den Ostseehäfen, (Rescue on the Baltic Sea: The escape from the Baltic Seaports),...

In 1865, a group of women petitioned the United States Congress to do something about female suffrage. This image depicts the original document which...

This map image depicts the route which Pliny the Elder took as he left Misenum (today's Capo Miseno) for the port town of Stabiae.  He was planni...

This poem is by S. Torre. No other words needed.  

In order for Prohibition violations to occur, on a regular basis, people who were hired to enforce the law had to ignore what was going on.  Ther...

This facsimile image depicts the police blotter for April 14, 1865.  See the last entry where the reporting officer has noted that the President ...

Sermons, like this one from clergy like Abraham Keteltas, supported colonial revolutionary ideas by saying that God and Biblical authority backed thei...

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.&...

Image of President Johnson's daily diary, for the 4th of August 1964, page 3. Click on the image for a better view.

Image of President Kennedy's letter to Premiere Khrushchev, dated October 22, 1962.  Page 1 of 2. Click on the image for a better view.

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