Tragedies and Triumphs Documents

This is a page from the 1840 work entitled A History of the Amistad Captives.  It depicts a map of the western part of Africa, including an area ...

Six Days in October, by Karen Blumenthal, is intended to help children understand the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

The Skid-Row area of Los Angeles, as defined by the LA Police Department, extends from 3rd to 7th streets, and Los Angeles to Alameda streets.  T...

Click on the image to animate the map. Slavery in America started in the early seventeenth century when workers were brought to the Jamestown set...

This map depicts the free and slave States, from Historical Geography, by John F. Smith, Chicago.  It was published in 1888. Click on the i...

During the 1930s, the federal government hired writers to obtain the oral histories of former slaves.  Tempie Cummins was one of those interviewe...

Further investigating their concerns about the Solid-Rocket-Motor joints and the potential failure of O-rings, NASA officials met with outside experts...

Further investigating their concerns about the Solid-Rocket-Motor joints and the potential failure of O-rings, NASA officials met with outside experts...

More Americans died of Spanish Flu in October, 1918, than in any other month that the virus plagued the world.  This document, from the Otis Arch...

During World War I, Harry Truman (a future American president) was serving with the American Expeditionary Forces near Verdun, France.  He had be...

This memo, discussing SRB (Solid Rocket Booster) Critical Items, reports on concerns about O-ring failures.  On the cause of a failure mode, the ...

This 17 December 1982 memo, discussing SRB (Solid Rocket Booster) Critical Items, reports on O-ring failures in a test mode: ...O-ring can withstan...