Famous Historical Topics & Events Story Briefs

To aid in the capture of Cherbourg, an important French port where Germany had radar stations, the Allies had to create an artificial harbor which the...

The starting gate, for ancient Olympians, was very different from the starting line for today’s runners.This image depicts the starting gate at ...

This is the Deringer John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.

Fort Ticonderoga, in New York state, is a large eighteenth-century fort. It played a key role in the Revolutionary War.

This image is from the October 10, 1846 issue of the London Pictorial Times. It illustrates a time of despair in Ireland, during what has come to be k...

Thanks to a mother lode of gold and silver, known as "The Comstock," Virginia City became one of the most important western towns in 19th-century Amer...

Vivian Leigh, who played the role of Scarlet O'Hara, in "Gone with the Wind," was married, for a time, to the famous actor Laurence Olivier. In this c...

Vivien Leigh, who played Scarlett O'Hara in the film version of "Gone with the Wind" - produced by David O.

Pyroclastic flows, originating from an erupting volcano, travel and are exceedingly dangerous. In this image, we see a pyroclastic flow at Mt. St. Hel...

When the discus was part of an Ancient-Olympic event, a votive discus was sometimes created to herald stellar performances of the athletes.

A view of Walden Pond, where Henry David Thoreau lived in a small cabin between 1845-1847.

Lt. General Walter Krueger was head of the U.S. Sixth Army in late 1943.