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.
This clip is another segment of the BBC's Breakfast News, broadcast on the morning of November 10, 1989.
Although Leonard Bernstein became a famous musician, composer and conductor, he had a very difficult childhood.
As Bertie grows closer to his father - King George V - his brother David (the Prince of Wales) grows farther apart.
Albert Frederick Arthur George (the Duke of York) and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon were married at Westminster Abbey on April 26, 1923.
People were so excited about the marriage of the Duke of York to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon - on April 26, 1923 - that they lined up for blocks just to see ...
The University of Texas at San Antonio (USTA) has an Institute for Texan Cultures (ITC).
In this clip, from Cry Freedom, Denzel Washington portrays Stephen Biko.
In 1949, Dr. Billy Graham traveled by train from Minneapolis to Los Angeles.
In the fourteenth century, bubonic plague swept through Europe, decimating the population.
Navy Commander Jeremiah Denison lets the world know about torture in a POW prison during his May, 1966 interview when he answers questions one way (wi...
When he was just twenty years old, Bob Dylan wrote a song about "The Death of Emmett Till.
During the second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), when the Boers refused to surrender to the Anglos, the British rounded-up thousands of Afrikaners (Boers...
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