Tragedies and Triumphs Chapters

When horrific things happen, how a person responds can make a difference in the rest of one's life. In this collection, learn how some individuals triumphed in the face of unspeakable tragedies.

KLM 4805 taxies down the runway directly toward Pan Am 1736, unaware of the risk the bad weather causes.

Charlotte Doyle's abandonment of her family leads to the children's commitment to Ireland's industrial schools.

Russia sends an unmanned robot to the moon before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first human beings to walk on the moon.

Dostoevsky's wife and brother die, sending him into a tailspin; he becomes broke and desperate.

Read stories of America's response to September 11 from survivors and the families who lost loved ones.

"No Man's Land" is the open and dangerous territory between Allied and German trenches during WWI.

Runaway slaves need to be creative to avoid capture.

William Still, a freeborn black man and Father of the Underground Railroad, shares accounts of slaves who take the passage to freedom.

View videos and listen to stories from tsunami survivors who explain their account of the destruction.

Tule Lake internment camp allow students to take class and families to grow crops.

Because Churchill ordered all the code-breaking hardware to be destroyed at Bletchley Park, after Germany surrendered, original devices did not surviv...

William Tyndale is largely responsible for the King James Version of the Bible, but his work is also burned.

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