Geography provides a sense of place. What a country has, in terms of strategic location and natural resources, can determine its role in the world. See why geography matters in this collection of stories.
The camp makes a profit from the prisoners' work, but nothing is shared with the zeks.
The zeks on Ivan Denisovich's team devour their lunch soup (and sop it up with stale bread saved from an earlier meal).
It is dark before Ivan Denisovich's team can return from their work at the power station.
Receiving a package from home is a great event for a prisoner, but every single item in the parcel is inspected by a guard before the prisoner can cla...
Even in the GULAG, men stash their precious belongings.
The hard-fought battle for Iwo Jima produced thousands of casualties.
As American Marines landed on the beaches of Iwo Jima, no one fired on them - for one hour.
One of the most reproduced photos of the twentieth century was shot at Iwo Jima.
A Japanese possession, the island of Iwo Jima was sacred to Japan and desired by America.
When the earthquake struck, on the afternoon of March 11th, people in Japan were going about their daily business.
On Iwo Jima's D-Day - February 19, 1945 - Basilone was a machine-gun section leader who came ashore on Red Beach 2.
This historical footage, from the National Archives, depicts Sgt.
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