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.

Bookcover image of The Killer Angels:  A Novel of the Civil War, by Michael Shaara. Amazon provides details about this acclaimed book: In t...

This page is an excerpt from The Korean War:  The Story and Photographs by Donald M. Goldstein and Harry J. Maihafer.  It describes the work...

Bookcover image of The Last Lion, Volume I: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932, by William Manchester.

Bookcover image of Life of Lord Kitchener (Volume Two), by Sir George Arthur.

The Mayflower Compact—Cornerstones of Freedom, by Melissa Whitcraft, is about the Pilgrims' voyage to America and the colony they established (a...

Theodore Roosevelt's first wife, Alice, died on Valentine's Day, 1884.  The image depicts his diary entry for that day:  The light has go...

A map of the Ohio River together with it's environs.

This book, which contains many Japanese primary-source materials, was edited by the co-authors of At Dawn We Slept (with the late Gordon Prange). ...

The author of Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World calls the stand of Leonidas and his men, at Thermopylae, "a suicidally defining stan...

Bookcover image of The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virgin...

The Stamp Act was a tax, imposed by the British Parliament, on American colonists. It caused massive resentment when it took effect on the 1st of Nove...

Image of the German ship Steuben, which was torpedoed and sunk by the Russian submarine S-13 on February 9, 1945.

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