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.

A group of six people first approached the federal government to try and do what the local police and authorities were unwilling to do in Chicago:&nbs...

A slave owner himself, Thomas Jefferson wrote a scathing indictment against it in his early draft of America’s Declaration of Independence. ...

Thomas Jefferson's completed draft of the Declaration of Independence was written in his own hand.  This image depicts the original document and ...

Auto-Ordnance released a submachine gun commonly known as the “Tommy Gun.”  When the product first came to market, its sales were wea...

Image of a pamphlet entitled Thoughts Upon Slavery, by John Wesley in 1778.  Founder of the Methodist church, Wesley despised slavery, particular...

This timeline, from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, identifies the dates for key events leading up to Hitler's "Final Solution" of the "J...

  After the loss of her husband, William Logan Gwinn - an American postal worker who died when Titanic sank - Florence Gwinn received a death-be...

  On the 1st of April, 1912, Oscar Scott Woody - an American Postal clerk - received travel orders to work in the "sea post office" aboard a Ger...

Image of the newspaper article: Freemen of Texas - To Arms!!! To Arms!!! "Now is the Day & Now is the Hour." Click on the image for a better view...

In the NOVA documentary, The Deadliest Plane Crash, First Officer Robert Bragg (who, along with the pilot and flight engineer survived the disaster) t...

Liz Johnson created this 9-11 remembrance: "New Vocabulary as of September 12, 2001"

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