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 image depicts the original resolution, put before the Second Continental Congress by Henry Lee, to break America’s ties with Great Britain:...

This Resolution, made by Richard Henry Lee and seconded by John Adams in the Second Continental Congress, brought the colonies a step closer to indepe...

As in any revolution, Iran's Islamic Revolution used slogans to rally the people.  This image depicts one of the slogans. Translated into Englis...

Two years to the day before he died of a gunshot wound in Los Angeles, Senator Robert F. Kennedy delivered a major speech in South Africa.  On t...

This is a facsimile of the Amnesty Oath signed by Robert E. Lee, swearing loyalty to the United States. 

Resignation of Robert E. Lee in which he left the United States Army in favor of supporting his state of Virginia in the American Civil War.

When Jackie Robinson was called-up from the Montreal Royals (the Dodgers' farm club) to the Brooklyn Dodgers (a Major-League team), the news quickly t...

This factoid of key events, leading up to and beginning on D-Day, adds interesting tidbits of history to the Normandy-invasion story. Click on the im...

Map depicting the location of Saint-Remy-de-Provence, where Vincent spent nearly a year in an asylum.  

Full text of Samuel Gompers' recorded speech. Labor's Service to FreedomFellow countrymen, our republic, our people, are at war. Whatever individua...

Image of a federal-government memo called Report of McNamara-Taylor Mission to South Vietnam, dated October 2,1963.  This document is significan...

This image depicts the 10th page of a federal-government memo entitled Report of McNamara-Taylor Mission to South Vietnam, dated October 2,1963. ...

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