Whether it's people, places or events which fuel "the news," the fabric of our lives is impacted by world events. This collection features stories from ancient to modern times.
This document, from June of 1943, indicates that the five crematoria at Auschwitz-Birkenau could process 4,756 "personen" per day. The doc...
Image of a fascimilie copy of the original German transcript of Himmler's speech.
Venerable Bede's work - Ecclesiastical History of the English People - is still studied. It tells us much about what life was like during the "D...
Beethoven's original score for his 3rd Symphony, better known as the Eroica, had a dedication change. Nearly putting a hole in his manuscript, Beetho...
Benjamin Franklin, one of America's "Founding Fathers," is thinking about electricity (and electrical experiments) in 1750.
Facing execution because of the whim of a dictator, Boethius was alone in the world. It was the 6th century, and he was trying to make sense of ...
This map depicts the extent of British control on the Indian subcontinent in 1860. The time of British ascendancy was known as "The Raj." Click...
Excerpt from a catalog advertising goods used in the slave trade.
In occupied Holland, Dutch churches issued a collective protest against the treatment of the country's Jews: The undersigned Dutch Churches, alread...
Children were committed to institutions, in Ireland, known as "Industrial Schools." Subsequent investigations reveal that children suffered greatly in...
A stele, called the "Daiva Inscription," was found at the royal compound of Persepolis. Among other things, it gives a description of countries which ...
The Fordwich Custumal is a document which sets-forth the laws and customs of the port town of Fordwich, England during medieval times.
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